Re: RE : [Ethereal-dev] Re: Building Etheral with MSVC++ 7

[Michael Moore]

He shoots!  He scores!!!!!!!!!!!!   Laurent/Gilbert,   Thanks for the help.  Making sure that ethereal, wiretap and zlib were all using the same dll was the fix.  Turns out that ethereal was using msvcr71 and wiretap/zlib where requiring msvcr71d.  When I forced them all to msvcr71 everything worked fine.   Again, thanks for your help and the intro to windows application debugging.  Now that I can build/package ethereal in win32, I'm happily returning to Linux to continue my development.   Again, thanks for your help.   Regards, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurent Rabret To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Michael Moore ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 9:05 AM Subject: Re: RE : [Ethereal-dev] Re: Building Etheral with MSVC++ 7 Indeed, it is so obvious !! Thanks Gilbert for your insight. Regards Laurent >From: Gilbert Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Laurent Rabret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ethereal Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: RE : [Ethereal-dev] Re: Building Etheral with MSVC++ 7 >Date: 27 Sep 2003 07:42:16 -0500 > >On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 18:13, Laurent Rabret wrote: >Mike, >I remember I had exactly the same error using MSVC++7... Be confident, a >correct version of Ethereal working with the standard dynamic lib can be >produced by this compiler (I use Ethereal compiled with VS.NET (debug >and retail) for about 2 years now). >I didn't investigate why but it seems to be important Zlib, wiretap and >ethereal use the same standard lib. Please check what these modules call >(with depends or dumpbin) and build a consistent association. When done, >you'll see your problem vanish. >Regards >Laurent > >It's important because the C library implements file descriptors. So if >your executable is using file descriptors in C library "A" and a DLL is >using file descriptors from C library "B", then those file descriptors >don't correlate, so the executable and DLL can't share file descriptors. >One part of the program will create a file descriptor, another part will >try to read from it, and the program will die. > >--gilbert > Protect your PC - Click here for McAfee.com VirusScan Online