Tim, Thanks for your answer.
> Have you done the following: > > Do you intend to build using MSVC & CYGWIN tools? > Was your Win32 build environment setup using the Developers Guide, > sections 2.3 & 4.6.2? Yes. > If you intended to use MSVC & CYGWIN tools, a command prompt [DOS > prompt] is the way to go! This is what I was using (and I have been compiling Wireshark/Ethereal for over 2 years). > Also ensure that you have run vcvars32.bat before calling nmake. This > is normally in "Program Files\Microsoft Visual studio\VC98\bin". This > sets lots of important paths and env vars for MSVC6. This was done too. For the records, the issue vanished by re-installing cygwin from scratch (without any other change). Something was screwed up there. Thanks a lot for your help, Olivier. _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev