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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Systematic crash at startup when launching Wireshark GTK+ 1.

From: Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:26:58 +0200
Hi,

2014-09-16 8:24 GMT+02:00 Anders Broman <a.broman58@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Den 16 sep 2014 08:00 skrev "Pascal Quantin" <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
>>
>>
>> Le 15 sept. 2014 23:13, "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>> >
>> > On 9/15/14 10:51 AM, Gerald Combs wrote:
>> > > On 9/15/14 10:02 AM, Pascal Quantin wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> It explains why it works fine with 1.12.0 then... And why I could not
>> > >> figure out a major difference in main.c file explaining the behavior
>> > >> while using the same libraries!
>> > >
>> > > If I build a package from g0a24908 (the commit prior to the GTK+
>> > > package
>> > > upgrade) Wireshark-gtk.exe starts up OK.
>> >
>> > I created a GTK+ bundle using the current OBS packages (GTK+ 2.24.23 +
>> > GLib 2.40.0) but Wireshark-gtk still crashes on Windows 8. We might have
>> > to revert back to the GTK+ 2.14 bundle or to Visual C++ 2010 in master.
>>
>> If we have no other choice I would prefer downgrading the GTK+ package as
>> it will become obsolete with time. And I would not have to reinstall a
>> MSVC2010 build environment... But I'm probably selfish ;)
>
> Upgrading to this package solved a severe memory leak with windows server
> and RDP, I think.
> Not sure what the best of two evils are...
I think testing GTK+ 3.14 would worth a try when it is out. The
default theme will be changed to Adwaita so Wireshark on Windows and
OS X would become nice for free*:
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/06/13/a-new-default-theme-for-gtk/

Cheers,
Balint

* OK, not for free, but for cheap. :-)