Matt Miling wrote:
I built wireshark using MSVC 2008 Express Edition and specified
MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC2008EE in config.nmake. I then ran wireshark.exe from the
wireshark-gtk2 directory and received an "Unable To Locate Component" error
dialog:
"The application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix the problem."
After installing wireshark using nsis, I received the same error.
I verified that msvcr90.dll is installed properly.
As a test, I obtained a copy of MSVCR71.dll and put it in the same directory
as wireshark.exe, and wireshark ran, but that's cheating. I'd like to run
against msvcr90.dll
Using depends.exe (http://dependencywalker.com/) on a current
development version of Wireshark I see that msvcr71.dll is needed by
krb5_32.dll and two DLLs upon which krb5_32 dll depends.
I'm no expert on Windows dependencies but I do see that the kfw
(kerberos for windows ?) library package was recently changed in the
WIN32 libraries for Wireshark.
See
http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=Wireshark-win32-libs&revision=293
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Author: gerald
Date: Wed Dec 23 00:02:08 2009 UTC (3 days, 20 hours ago)
Log Message:
Drop the locally-compiled kfw package in favor of MIT's.
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I expect this is the reason why MSVCR71 is now required.
This sounds like a bug; I'll leave it to Gerald Coombs to determine how
this should be dealt with.
I suggest filing a bug (bugzilla.wireshark.org) so it doesn't get lost.
Also: re:
> After installing wireshark using nsis, I received the same error.
I assume you mean installing the Wireshark veresion you built...
Bill Meier