["Jasim Tariq" <jasimtariqjt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To restore your PATH User and System Variable, I can tell you following:
> My user variable PATH is:
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools\WinNT;C:\Program 
> Files\Microsoft Visual >Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin;C:\Program 
> Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\Tools;C:\Program >Files\Microsoft 
> Visual Studio\VC98\bin;C:\cygwin\bin
>
>
> This contains also the folder for nmake.exe. It is in "C:\Program 
> Files\Microsoft Visual\Studio\VC98
> \bin\"
> You don't need C:\cygwin\bin in the user variable PATH, its optional.
>
>
> My system variable PATH is 
> C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem
>
>
> If this doesn't help you, and building still doesn't work, I recommend a 
> complete new and clean >installation of your build environment.
>
>
> About your problem with distclean: 'rm' is failing in epan\dissectors . So 
> look for any *.obj files after >a distclean and try to remove them manually 
> if necessary. Perhaps there is a problem with a file >permission. Otherwise 
> restore the original epan\dissectors\Makefile.common and try a distclean. 
> If >that works, your modification of Makefile.common is not correct.

I have tried the suggestion given above. It works fine now. Ethereal is able 
to build fine now. Even the new dissector that I added, builds. The 
proto_register and proto_reg_handoff routines relating to the dissector also 
get added automatically.

But Now Im back to the same story. I get an error similar to the one I got 
when I installed the dissecgtor as a plugin. Ethereal does not start. On the 
sratrup it gives me these errors:

1)  A message box appears with box title "error" and the following content:
"unspecified fatal error encountered, aborting."

Pressing OK gives another error:
2) Another message box pops up with title"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 
Library" and the following content:
"Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Ethereal\ethereal.exe
This application has requested the runtime to terminate it in an unusual 
way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information."

The message boxes are also attached with this email.
Please help. Im almost there. I guess...

Thanks,
Jasim

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