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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] build wireshark on Windows xp with VC 6.0 failed

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:33:37 -0700
Fenggen Jia wrote:
When building the latest wireshark source from SVN(28879), the following problem occurs:
"
mt: unknown option -- n
usage: mt [-V] [-f device] operation [count]
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'mt.exe' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
"
The mt version i'm using is below:
"C:\cygwin\bin>mt.exe -V
mt V2.3.2, Corinna Vinschen, Jan 14 2009"

Do you have

MSVC_VARIANT=MSVC6

uncommented in config.nmake, and are all the other MSVC_VARIANTs commented out?