1[](https://travis-ci.org/farsightsec/wdns) 2 3Farsight wdns 4============= 5 6`wdns` is a low-level C library for dealing with wire-format dns packets. 7 8Contact information 9------------------- 10 11Questions about `wdns`, should be directed to the `wdns-dev` mailing list: 12 13https://lists.farsightsecurity.com/mailman/listinfo/wdns-dev 14 15Building and installing wdns 16---------------------------- 17 18wdns has the following external dependencies: 19 20* [pcap](http://www.tcpdump.org/) 21 22* [pkg-config](https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/pkg-config/) 23 24On Debian systems, the following packages should be installed, if available: 25 26 pkg-config libpcap0.8-dev 27 28Note that on Debian systems, binary packages of wdns are available from 29[a Debian package repository maintained by Farsight Security](https://archive.farsightsecurity.com/SIE_Software_Installation_Debian/). 30These packages should be used in preference to building from source on 31Debian-based systems. 32 33On FreeBSD systems, the following ports should be installed, if available: 34 35 devel/pkgconf 36 37After satisfying the prerequisites, `./configure && make && make install` should 38compile and install `libwdns` in `/usr/local`. If building from a git checkout, 39run the `./autogen.sh` command first to generate the `configure` script. 40 41Examples 42-------- 43 44C language examples are in the `examples/` directory. 45
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