Re: build svn nmap on mswin32 under cygwin

[jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>]

Sina Bahram wrote:
> I can't stress enough that no visual studio should be required ... I think
> nmap compiles with just the sdk provided by installing .net, and so you
> don't even need the free express versions.
>
> I will see if I can carve out some time to try to compile nmap with those
> tools, but it's a bit tricky, and it would require someone to write an
> msbuild file for it, since the sln is a solution file for visual studio, and
> we really need a build.xml.
>   
That would be a good idea - I had hours of hair pulling when I first was 
setting visual studio (expr. edn.) up!
> Ok, the other thing is this. Please check out mingw ... I have never used
> cygwin in the past four or five years, and I am perfectly happy. Mingw gives
> me all of my little gnu tools like wc, find, gawk/awk, grep, and the rest,
> all in any windows cmd prompt.
>
> It also gives me an extremely stable and good version of gcc, make,
> autoconf, and so on.
>
> Take care,
> Sina 
Mingw you say, I like the sound of that and I'll have a go.  One step at 
a time though, I want to conquer this cygwin thing because it used to 
compile nmap with UMIT with no (well, not many) problems...  Thanks for 
the tip!  (and: every day's a school day)

jah

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