http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30777
--- Comment #3 from Qian Hong fracting@gmail.com 2012-05-31 11:36:06 CDT --- (In reply to comment #2)
For the record, it looks like npptools.dll is part of network monitor 2.1, which is not downloadable, and does not work on Vista and up. (Network monitor 3.x is downloadable, but doesn't seem to have that dll.)
Thanks for the information ;-)
Now we have a winpcap wrapper: http://code.google.com/p/wine-winpcap-wrapper/
With the winpcap wrapper's builtin packet.dll.so, we can bypass npptools.dll. It already works with some version of Dr.com.
Once the winpcap wrapper is getting more complete, we'll clean up and split the code and send patches to wine-patch.
A quote of our discuss with AJ: --- snip ---
I'm asking about whether in theory the Wine project could accept a builtin packet.dll.so I know that's out of wine's scope, but I hope we can have an exception.
In theory yes, assuming that someone can demonstrate a credible way to implement it. I don't want to add just a bunch of stubs if there's no hope that it can be properly completed. --- snip ---
Cheers.