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.