Hi! On a computer without any Visual Studio version installed I tested my private Wireshark build compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition and with it's own installer. As usual, this installer will call the vcredist_x86.exe, so it installs the msvcr80.dll for the 2005 studio.
However, I was facing the problem of Wireshark not loading (probably because of missing dlls). So I digged deeper into that problem, looking for a program to display the required dlls. I've found: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ that displays the dlls, so I looked at the problematic computer. I found out that the problematic dependency chain was: libwireshark.dll lua5.1.dll msvcr90.dll Strangely, the dependency walker was finding a msvcr90.dll in "program files\image magick". I don't know if Windows will really use this totally unrelated dll or if this is a bug in dependency walker. Maybe that's the reason, that we get different error messages on different omputers - because different additional programs are installed?!? Anyway, the msvcr90.dll in image magick was the older version (without SP1) of the two possible, but lua seems to need the newer one[1]. After installing vcredist_x86.exe for MSVC2008 SP1 [2], Wireshark started without a problem. First of all, I'm glad that I've found the cause of the problem :-) So a solution for MSVC 2005 (EE) devels like me: 1) Install SP1 for your Visual Studio - a good idea anyway 2) Add vcredist_x86.exe / or the corresponding msvcr files for 2008 SP1 to the installer, even if developing under 2005 I guess it's a good idea to integrate 2) into the setup / build process ... Regards, ULFL [1] http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/ChToolsMSChain.html#id4715151 [2] http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
