2003.08.14 20:28 "[Tiff] building libtiff for Windows", by Pushkar Pradhan

2003.08.15 03:57 "[Tiff] building libtiff for Windows", by Chris Cox

It means that you don't have your path setup to use all the Visual C command line tools.

You need to modify your environment variables to include the VC bin directory. (which you should have done when you installed VC...)

Chris