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I might have been able to discover the solution myself, but I made an incorrect assumption: I assumed that an 'out-of-tree' dissector build was synonymous with a plug-in DLL and that an 'in-tree' build was synonymous with a dissector compiled into the Wireshark executable. I can now see that this clearly isn't the case, since there are multiple 'in-tree' plug-in DLL dissectors within the source. So my issues around building an out-of-tree plug-in DLL were resolvable by building an in-tree plug-in - a combination that I assumed didn't exist. Apologies if my incorrect & interchangeable use of terminology has caused any confusion.

The solution to my problem is to base my plug-in dissector on an in-tree-built plug-in that already exists within the prepared source tree (wsbuild64).

Best regards

Steve