Chris Delaney wrote:
Hello,
I am having a problem loading my custom dissector plugin .dll with the
standard distribution of Wireshark 0.99.5. I checked out the source tree
(0.99.5) via Subversion and was able to successfully build the Wireshark
executables along with my plugin .dll. When running the version that I
built, my plugin loads fine and the dissector operates as expected.
However, if I download the standard (binary) version of Wireshark 0.99.5,
after installing and copying my plugin .dll to the .../plugins/0.99.5
directory I get the infamous:
Couldn't load module <path>\xxx.dll: The specified module could not be found
I'm guessing that I am not providing the correct build options for the .dll,
but cannot seem to find which one. I also tried to copy a .dll of one of
the standard plugins (ciscosm) that I built to the plugins directory of the
standard distribution and that failed as well. So it does not seem to be my
particular plugin, but rather my build environment. Specifically:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (version 2.0.50727)
Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows XP Professional SP 2
Wireshark 0.99.5
Two things comes to mind:
- copy the xxx.dll.manifest file along with the dll (this is new with
Visual C++ version 8)
- install vcredist_x86.exe (if the machine running WS isn't the machine
where studio is installed)
Regards, ULFL
