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

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

Date Index Thread Index Other Months All Mailing Lists
Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next
From: "Graham Bloice" <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:14:46 +0100
> 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