Sorry, I should have spotted this sooner. The file windows.h is actually
in /usr/include/w32api, so you need to make sure this is included in the
search path.
I figured you'd made some private changes, as there aren't many other
reasons why people would want to compile 4.20 from source :)
And if all that doesn't work, at least you should be able to use the free
edition of Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (+ the SDK) as "Plan B" ;)
Rob
> I did in fact include the /usr/lib/w32api directory but couldn't find
> windows.h in it at all.
>
> Any other place I can get this or find it? I actually do have the latest
> cygwin installed already. Unfortunately I have patched nmap for some
> private
> usages and need to compile this myself on windows, else I would just
> download it.
>
> TF.
>
>
> On 10/11/07, Rob Nicholls <robert_at_everythingeverything.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> For reference, instructions on how to compile nmap on Windows are
>> available here:
>>
>> http://insecure.org/nmap/install/inst-windows.html#inst-win-source
>>
>> This states "Many people have asked whether Nmap can be compiled with
>> the
>> gcc/g++ included with Cygwin or other compilers. Some users have
>> reported
>> success with this, but we don't maintain instructions for building Nmap
>> under Cygwin" (probably because most Windows users grab the binaries).
>>
>> I'd like to quickly point out that I managed to compile SVN rev 5916
>> okay
>> using Visual Studio .NET 2003 after modifying all of the .vcproj files
>> to
>> say "7.10" instead of "8.00" so there's no need to grab 2005 if you have
>> either version of VS.NET (as I suspect it'd work in VS.NET 2002 by
>> changing "8.00" to "7.00", although I've not tried this).
>>
>> Getting back on topic, I believe the windows.h file is part of the
>> w32api
>> files that are released by cygwin (I think MinGW have their own version
>> of
>> windows.h too). There are plenty of mirrors
>> (http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html):
>>
>> http://cygwin.osuosl.org/release/w32api/
>> http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/w32api/
>>
>> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/release/w32api/
>>
>> The files may already be on your machine (e.g.
>> c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api),
>> I think there have been issues in the past where the setup program put
>> files directly in /usr/lib/w32api rather than in /lib/w32api (and if you
>> try and access the folder in bash, you'll probably get an error
>> message),
>> so you may find that installing the latest version of cygwin, or moving
>> the w32api folder (using Windows) from c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api into
>> c:\cygwin\lib\w32api might fix things.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>>
>> > Trying to compile nmap, getting the following error..
>> >
>> > 1>c:\cygwin\home\peter\nmap-4.20\nbase\nbase_winunix.h(111) : fatal
>> error
>> > C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or
>> directory
>> >
>> > it appears over and over... is it not finding the SDK or something?
>> how
>> > can
>> > I fix this?
>> >
>> > Any help really appreciated.
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > TF.
>> >
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