Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem loading custom DLL with standard Wireshark distribution

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

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