Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Error loading plugin

[Paul Offord <Paul.Offord@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Juanjo Martin,

 

This feedback might be a bit naïve (particularly as Pascal knows this stuff better than me) but I think it might be down to naming.

 

Assuming:

 

• Your dissector function is called dissect_shapetype(…)
• Your registration handoff function is called proto_reg_handoff_shapetype(…)
• Your dissector registration function is called proto_register_shapetype(…)
• And you register the protocol with an abbreviation shapetype

 

I think you should generate a plugin called shapetype.dll.

 

Best regards…Paul

 

From: Wireshark-dev <wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Pascal Quantin
Sent: 10 April 2018 14:58
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Error loading plugin

 

Hi Juanjo,

 

2018-04-10 14:02 GMT+02:00 Juanjo Martin Carrascosa <juanjo@xxxxxxx>:

Hi all,

 

I am developing a plugin. It works for me but when I try to give it to other developers, some of them get the following error:

 

I am using VS2012 in Windows 64 bits and I have asked one of the developers to try installing the redistributable for that version and still failing.

I have tried searching in the code but I can't find anything that leads me to a solution. Any thoughts?

 

Just some blind guesses based on my past experience:

- have you built the plugin against the source code of Wireshark 2.4.X? Wireshark does not ensure (understand systematically breaks in practice) the API between major releases so a plugin built for Wireshark 2.5.1 cannot work with Wireshark 2.4.5

- are they running a Wireshark version matching the architecture (x86 vs x64) used to build the plugin (but if I remember correctly the error differs in that case)?

- Wireshark 2.4.x official installers use MSVC2015, not 2012. Could you build the plugin using MSVC2015 Community Edition and check whether it works fine?

Regards,
Pascal.

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