Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] The new Ethereal on Windows crashes

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 11:06:39 -0500
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 10:19:06AM -0500, Gerrit Gehnen wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/win32/ethereal-20000404-winpcap.zip
> >
> > contains executables for ethereal and tethereal that work with the new
> > WinPcap.
> 
> I just installed the WinPcap and the capturing-ethereal from the set on
> WinNT 4.0
> with SP 5.
> The GTK-Lib stuff is from the gtk-libs-19990828.zip package.
> Ethereal crashes at the end of the second capture:
> Start ethereal, start capturing and quit it after a gathering some
> packets
> with the Stop-Button. Everything is fine.
> Start Capture again, wait a few packets and press the stop button or set
> the number of packets and wait until you got all requested packets.
> *BANG*.
> My Debugger told me, that the crash is located within the GLIB-1.3.
> Maybe I should setup a build-enviroment for the Win-Port.....
> 
>   Gerrit

For those more knowledgable about Win32, could this be an issue of
compiling Ethereal as multi-threaded, but not glib and friends?

--gilbert