Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Some error printouts when building from the latest tarballs

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Anders Broman (TN/EAB) wrote:

> Hi,
> When I build from the latest tarballs ( Can't remember when I first got the problem ) I get some compiler warnings ( at the end off the message )
> and when I start the .exe file and load a capture I get the following ( Built with MSVC6 on Windows2000 proffessional ).
>
> error opening c:\program files\ethereal\asn1\default.tt, No such file or directo
> ry                                                                                                                       <- Known problem, btw setting the file name to " " doesn't help on this build.
>
> (ethereal-2004-01-14.exe:3184): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1393 (gt        <- ?
> k_widget_destroy): assertion `widget != NULL' failed
>  
I have done some GTK rework in the last weeks, so maybe I "introduced" this.

It would be very helpful, if you can describe at which operation (open 
or closing of a specific dialog, ...) you got this assertion.

Unfortunately, the GTK text isn't very informational for finding the cause.

> But the program works.
>
> I get the following compiler warnings ( probably missed a few ).
>
> :
> packet-smb.c
> packet-smb.c(1125) : warning C4308: negative integral constant converted to unsi
> gned type
> packet-smb.c(1236) : warning C4308: negative integral constant converted to unsi
> gned type
> :
> :
> getopt.c
> getopt.c(409) : warning C4013: 'strcmp' undefined; assuming extern returning int
>
> getopt.c(478) : warning C4013: 'strncmp' undefined; assuming extern returning in
> t
> getopt.c(480) : warning C4013: 'strlen' undefined; assuming extern returning int
>
> pcap-util.c
> :
> :
>  
That's simply because I have raised the MSVC warning level dramatically 
from default 0 to 3 (and removed a *few hundred* warnings since the last 
weeks).

This warning level is helpful when writing new code, as the MSVC 
compiler will now warn about unused vars and a lot other things.

As a result, the generation now prints some new warnings, where I don't 
have a good and simple solution.
Nonetheless, these warnings should be solved, but better by the people 
who has written / committed the code earlier.

>        bash pod2html                     --title="The Ethereal Network Analyzer
> 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  ethereal.pod > ethereal.htm
> l
>        bash pod2html                     --title="The Ethereal Network Analyzer
> 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  tethereal.pod > tethereal.h
> tml
>        cd ..
>        tethereal.exe -G | perl doc\dfilter2pod.pl doc\ethereal-filter.pod.templ
> ate > doc\ethereal-filter.pod
>        cd doc
>        bash pod2html                     --title="The Ethereal Network Analyzer
> 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  ethereal-filter.pod > ether
> eal-filter.html
>        bash pod2html                      --title="The Ethereal Network Analyze
> r 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  editcap.pod > editcap.html
>
>        bash pod2html                      --title="The Ethereal Network Analyze
> r 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  idl2eth.pod > idl2eth.html
>
> /usr/bin/pod2html: idl2eth.pod: unterminated list at =head in paragraph 32.  ign
> oring.
>        bash pod2html                      --title="The Ethereal Network Analyze
> r 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  mergecap.pod > mergecap.ht
> ml
> /usr/bin/pod2html: mergecap.pod: unterminated list at =head in paragraph 28.  ig
> noring.
>        bash pod2html                      --title="The Ethereal Network Analyze
> r 0.10.0"  --noindex                                  text2pcap.pod > text2pcap.
> html
> /usr/bin/pod2html: text2pcap.pod: unterminated list at =head in paragraph 44.  i
> gnoring.
>        cd ..
> :
>
>  
I don't know anything of these pod2html warnings, sorry.

Regards, ULFL