From: Jason Ish <jason.ish@oisf.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 22:38:22 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: windows: exit early if live capture requested without npcap
X-Git-Tag: suricata-7.0.0-beta1~971
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e096dda4e0c7d1ebcb3607daea1181c29bc0137;p=thirdparty%2Fsuricata.git

windows: exit early if live capture requested without npcap
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diff --git a/src/suricata.c b/src/suricata.c
index 47cadf3d5f..5632846515 100644
--- a/src/suricata.c
+++ b/src/suricata.c
@@ -1212,6 +1212,11 @@ static int ParseCommandLineDpdk(SCInstance *suri, const char *in_arg)
 
 static int ParseCommandLinePcapLive(SCInstance *suri, const char *in_arg)
 {
+#if defined(OS_WIN32) && !defined(HAVE_LIBWPCAP)
+    /* If running on Windows without Npcap, bail early as live capture is not supported. */
+    FatalError(SC_ERR_FATAL,
+            "Live capture not available. To support live capture compile against Npcap.");
+#endif
     memset(suri->pcap_dev, 0, sizeof(suri->pcap_dev));
 
     if (in_arg != NULL) {