No such file or directory net/bpf.h

Question

I am trying to run the make command and I got the error

fatalerror: net/bpf.h: No such file or directory.

I looked up online and found this link : http://www.joewein.net/info/sw-net-bfh-error.htm

tried executing

ln -s /usr/include/pcap-bpf.h /usr/include/net/bpf.h

Please help me on how to resolve this error.

Answer 1

I think there's a typo in that instruction. It should be: /usr/include/pcap/bpf.h and not /usr/include/pcap-bpf.h since there's bpf.h file provided by the pcap library. So you need to install the library first:

sudo apt-get install libpcap0.8-dev

and then do:

ln -s /usr/include/pcap/bpf.h /usr/include/net/bpf.h