On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:38:39AM -0700, Pataki Szilard wrote: > I wrote two new dissectors and compiled them as plugins, following the > instructions in the Developer guide. I also created the executable > installer (using NSIS). The installer works (it also installs > WinPCap), but Wireshark starts up only on the PC, where it has been > built. In other words, if I take the installer, perform the > installation on another PC and start Wireshark, I get the following > error message: "The application failed to start, because the > application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application > might solve the problem."
What if you build an installer on the first machine and don't include the additional plugins? Does it still give that error message? > Any clues, what the problem might be? How can I get a bit more verbose > error messages? Not sure, I usually use Unix. Sorry. > I also tried to copy my own dissectors (2 dlls) into the plugins/ > folder of a default Wireshark installation (as downloaded from WWW). > The error message was "mydissector.dll not found.", where mydissector > is the name of my dissector :-) That is known to not always work because of API changes between each version. Basically, you have to use the plugins on the exact same build version/SVN revision as you built them with right now. Steve _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
