Thanks to all of you for your feedback.
Setting the PATH environment variable to pick the unzip from cygwin instead of Oracle 9i - resolved the installation of the Libraries.
After doing distclean (Step 2.2.9 - "nmake -f Makefile.nmake distclean"), I tried to build Wireshark (Step 2.2.10 - "nmake -f Makefile.nmake make all").
During the build process, I get the following error:
/***/
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.9782.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.
'zlib1.dll' is up-to-date
        if not exist C:\wireshark-win32-libs\zlib123 mkdir C:\wireshark-win32-libs\zlib123
        if not exist C:\wireshark-win32-libs\zlib123\lib mkdir C:\wireshark-win32-libs\zlib123\lib
        if not exist C:\wireshark-win32-libs\zlib123\include mkdir C:\wireshark-win32-libs\zlib123\include
        mt.exe -nologo -manifest "zlib1.dll.manifest" -outputresource:zlib1.dll;2
'mt.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'mt.exe' : return code '0x1'
Stop.
/***/
When I do a search on the Manifest Tool (mt.exe), I dont see it anywhere on my C Drive.  I am running Visual Studio 6 . Is this exe part of Platform SDK?  Should I expect to see it under "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin"?
FYI , I have run VCVARS32.bat from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin" as per the instructions.
Again, any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Sunny
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Graham Bloice 
<graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ramesh Sankaranarayanan wrote:
> The output doesnt indicate an error as far as I can tell:
>
>
> C:\Wireshark>nmake -f Makefile.nmake verify_tools
>
> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.9782.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.
>
> Checking for required applications:
>         cl: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/MICROS~3/VC98/BIN/cl
>         link: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/MICROS~3/VC98/BIN/link
>         nmake: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/MICROS~3/VC98/BIN/nmake
>         bash: /usr/bin/bash
>         bison: /usr/bin/bison
>         flex: /usr/bin/flex
>         env: /usr/bin/env
>         grep: /usr/bin/grep
>         /usr/bin/find: /usr/bin/find
>         perl: /cygdrive/c/Perl/bin/perl
>         C:\Python24\python.exe: /cygdrive/c/Python24/python.exe
>         sed: /usr/bin/sed
>         unzip: /cygdrive/c/Oracle9i/bin/unzip
>
^ This is the error.  You don't have cgwin unzip installed, or the
Oracle9i version is found earlier on your path.
>
>         wget: /usr/bin/wget
>
>
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Regards,
Graham Bloice