| Library | Recommendation | |---------|----------------| | | ✅ Modern choice – actively maintained, supports loopback capture, Win11/ARM64, and is compatible with WinPcap APIs. | | WinPcap | ❌ Discontinued (last release 2013). Don't use for new projects. | | Win10Pcap | ⚠️ Limited niche use; largely replaced by Npcap. |

For most people, the easiest way to get wpcap working is:

pcap_freealldevs(alldevs); return 0;