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Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore
From: Richard Browne <richard () timestone com au>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:13:06 +1100
I installed 6.49BETA5 on XPsp3 and it all seems good. Installs fine. nmap runs fine. Thanks for listening.> Though if someone has any good evidence that v120_xp is just as good as v120 for the modern Windows users, that would definitely change the calculation. Yes it’s true that setting v120_xp switches to the older Windows SDK. But it’s not the case that the “newer API” has bug fixes. The Windows SDK is basically just a huge collection of header files. The WIN32 API is baked into Windows. So no matter what SDK you use, your exe still calls the same functions exported from KERNEL32.dll for example. The newer SDK merely has new stuff in the headers (eg. function declarations).That's good info and we enabled v120_xp for 6.49BETA5. Has anyone tried this version on Windows XP? Please let us know if it worked!
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