Thanks Bill. Bug 4356 was logged. Your assumption was correct, I was unclear. I built an installer for my build of wireshark using NSIS, then installed wireshark and ran to no avail; the MSVCR71.dll error still appeared.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Bill Meier <wme...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Matt Miling wrote: > > I built wireshark using MSVC 2008 Express Edition and specified > > MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC2008EE in config.nmake. I then ran wireshark.exe from > the > > wireshark-gtk2 directory and received an "Unable To Locate Component" > error > > dialog: > > > > "The application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. > > Re-installing the application may fix the problem." > > > > After installing wireshark using nsis, I received the same error. > > > > I verified that msvcr90.dll is installed properly. > > > > As a test, I obtained a copy of MSVCR71.dll and put it in the same > directory > > as wireshark.exe, and wireshark ran, but that's cheating. I'd like to > run > > against msvcr90.dll > > > > Using depends.exe (http://dependencywalker.com/) on a current > development version of Wireshark I see that msvcr71.dll is needed by > krb5_32.dll and two DLLs upon which krb5_32 dll depends. > > I'm no expert on Windows dependencies but I do see that the kfw > (kerberos for windows ?) library package was recently changed in the > WIN32 libraries for Wireshark. > > See > > http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=Wireshark-win32-libs&revision=293 > > " > Author: gerald > Date: Wed Dec 23 00:02:08 2009 UTC (3 days, 20 hours ago) > Log Message: > > Drop the locally-compiled kfw package in favor of MIT's. > " > > > I expect this is the reason why MSVCR71 is now required. > > This sounds like a bug; I'll leave it to Gerald Coombs to determine how > this should be dealt with. > > I suggest filing a bug (bugzilla.wireshark.org) so it doesn't get lost. > > Also: re: > > After installing wireshark using nsis, I received the same error. > I assume you mean installing the Wireshark veresion you built... > > > Bill Meier > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe >
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