Re: nmap on cygwin

["Jay Freeman \(saurik\)" <saurik () saurik com>]

(DOH! Just noticed I only sent this to Andy)

To make the point, this person (seeing as (s)he didn't give a name) is
compiling version 2.53 of nmap (possibly believing that "non-beta" == "more
stable"), and might not have any idea that the released 2.54BETA16 included
Win32 support, VC++ project files, and (I believe even...) available
binaries.

Nameless network manager with the nsimail.com e-mail account:  You might
want to take a look at the latest (quite stable...) "beta" release
(2.54BETA29?) to see this magical mswin32 folder people speak of   :-P .

Sincerely,
Jay Freeman (saurik)
saurik () saurik com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Lutomirski" <luto () myrealbox com>
To: <nmap-dev () insecure org>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: nmap on cygwin


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> I'm sure you can get it to compile (cygwin is more or less a windows
> platform, and nmap compiles on MSVC6).  I'm not sure it will work,
> however.  The algorithms that the unix version of nmap uses to
> determine routing and the pcap interface do not work on windows, and
> I think that the raw socket sends will confuse it somewhat (and only
> work at all on W2K/XP).  You're probably better off just compiling
> the native windows version, or if you are already starting there but
> still want a cygwin build (as opposed to just the cygnus compiler),
> you could probably just remove some of the redefined functions and
> macros in the mswin32 directory.
>
> Andy
>
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: <netmgmt () nsimail com>
> To: <nmap-dev () insecure org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:30 AM
> Subject: nmap on cygwin
>
>
> > I am trying to compile NMAP on cygwin, I got through the configure
> > ok, what with  copying linux include files over to cygwin. The make
> > also proceeded, what I believe  to be pretty far, but I am stuck.
> > So 2 questions.
> > 1) Has anyone compiled on cygwin ?
> > 2) Can anyone advise me on the below error ?
> > Thanks
> >
> > $ make
> > gcc -DDEBUG -g -O2 -Wall  -Ilibpcap-possiblymodified
> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNMAP_VER  SION=\"2.53\" -DNMAP_NAME=\"nmap\"
> > -DNMAP_URL=\"www.insecure.org/nmap/\" -DNMAPD
> > ATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/nmap\" -I. -Ilibpcap-possiblymodified
> > -c -o nmap.o n  map.c
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