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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 5420] New: can NOT load wpcap.dll & packet.dll is put thes

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:21:27 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5420

           Summary: can NOT load wpcap.dll & packet.dll is put these dlls
                    into same dirs as wireshark.exe
           Product: Wireshark
           Version: 1.4.1
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Low
         Component: Wireshark
        AssignedTo: wireshark-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: wuchh.79@xxxxxxxxxxx


Build Information:
Version 1.4.1

Copyright 1998-2010 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled with GTK+ 2.16.6, (32-bit) with GLib 2.22.4, with WinPcap (version
unknown), with libz 1.2.3, without POSIX capabilities, without libpcre, with
SMI
0.4.8, with c-ares 1.7.1, with Lua 5.1, without Python, with GnuTLS 2.8.5, with
Gcrypt 1.4.5, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, with PortAudio V19-devel (built
Nov
17 2010), with AirPcap.

Running on Windows XP Service Pack 3, build 2600, without WinPcap, GnuTLS
2.8.5,
Gcrypt 1.4.5, without AirPcap.

Built using Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 build 30729

Wireshark is Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public
License.

Check the man page and http://www.wireshark.org for more information.
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currently wireshark can NOT load winpcap dynamic libraries from same dir as
wireshark.exe exist,

wireshark capture can worked OK if winPcap DLLs is installed into
c:\windows\system32.

If I put the wpcap.dll & packet.dll into same wireshark dirs,
it can NOT load these libraries.

----------------
in "wsutil/file_util.c":

function init_dll_load_paths() 

      /* XXX - Duplicate code in filesystem.c:init_progfile_dir */
      if (GetModuleFileName(NULL, path_pfx, MAX_PATH) == 0 || GetLastError() ==
ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER) {
        return FALSE;
      }

      if (!program_path) {
        program_path = g_utf16_to_utf8(path_pfx, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
      }


### this "path_pfx" is the full path name with filename(wireshark.exe)
included,



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in "wsutil/file_util.c":
ws_load_library(gchar *library_name) {

full_path = g_module_build_path(program_path, library_name);

### here load library for wpcap.dll/packet.dll would failed,
if we put these dlls into same dirs as wireshark in.

This is important for me, since I can NOT install winPcap on some special
machine, but I need wireshark working with pipe mode capture.

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