Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Execution problems with 0.9.15 and MSVC++

["Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've been working with Ethereal in Linux for a while, but this is
>my first dive into win32 and Microsoft Visual Studio > .NET 2003.
>
>Ethereal finally full links and runs, but when I attempt a capture I
>get the pop-up message:
>
>ethereal.exe - Application Error
>The instruction at "0x77f92373" referenced memory at "0x00000010".
>  The memory could not be "written"
>
>The application is failing inside "libpcap_dump_open" at the "fwrite"
> statement.  I've loaded all the packages
>recommended in the README.win32, and WinPcap 3.01.  I've also noticed
> that it is unable to open and read any previously captured files.

Have you set the VC environment variables properly, i.e. executed
vcvars32.bat ?

If so have you cleaned up after failed attempts, e.g. "nmake -f
Makefile.nmake clean" ?

Graham Bloice