It would be great if instructions for compiling nmap under cygwin on
win32 were maintained, I'm sure there are windows users out there who
would love to stay abreast of the latest developments in the coolest
network tool on earth!
I've compiled nmap several times in the past, but lately I've had some
issues with the result and not had time to investigate the what and the why.
The readily evident problem was a lack of fonts for zenmap, but other
than that, I've been unable to take the time to find what else, if
anything, was broken.
Procrastination is a great thing though, because it gives me a reason to
spend a bit of time with nmap...
So, I start off with a virgin svn checkout and make a small change to
the nmap/mswin32/makefile:
Prepend "/cygdrive" to the paths for MAKENSIS and VCEXPRESS (lines 1 and
2) so they look like "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/..."
This may be necessary only because I'm not very experienced with cygwin,
I don't know.
Then fire-up cygwin shell and cd to nmap/mswin32 (in my case:
/cygdrive/c/nmap/mswin32) and "make winbuild"
(I had been redirecting the output to a text file "make winbuild >
buildlog.log", but I found that any errors don't get redirected to the
text file and appear at the commandline which makes it a bugger to work
out where the error occurred, so I don't do that anymore)
First issue:
$ make winbuild > nmap_6360_build.log
cp: cannot stat `nselib/*.dll': No such file or directory
make: *** [winbuild] Error 1
I found that "bit.dll" was located in nselib-bin rather than in nselib
so nselib-bin.patch (attached for r6362) fixed that for me, but I'd love
to know what's gone wrong here...
So having rolled back and started again with the newly modified
mswin32/makefile I get something that appears to be an error:
cd ../zenmap && install_scripts/windows/copy_and_compile.bat
Setting installation variables...
Writing output to win_install.log
Removing old compilation...
The system cannot find the file specified.
On line 35 of zenmap/install_scripts/windows/copy_and_compile.bat:
rd %DistDir% /s /q > %Output%
%DistDir% refers to nmap/zenmap/dist/ which is created during compile
and isn't present in a virgin svn checkout so I assume that this is not
anything to worry about. However, being a bit of a pedant, I decided to
prepend "IF EXIST %DistDir% " to line 35 and made sure that a) there was
no longer a complaint if the dir was not present and b) the dir was
removed if it was present (copy_compile.patch attached for r6362).
At this point, as far as the output from cygwin is concerned, everything
looks good except for:
Compiling using py2exe...
warning: py2exe: Version Info will not be included:
could not parse version number '4.23RC3'
The version number is in nmap/zenmap/umitCore/Version.py as "4.23RC3"
and I assume that this is nothing to worry about either. I imagine that
when the RC is removed for a proper release, it will again be parsable.
Having said that, and being someone who likes to fiddle, as well as
being a pedant, I thought I might see what happened if I used "4.23.0.3"
instead. Gratifyingly, the version number seemed to be parsed OK this
time. I won't, however, presume to offer a patch.
But after all of this, do I have a successful compile? Do I fcuk!
In the attached *aaaarghh.zip* is *zen-sshot.jpg* so you can see what I
mean about the zenmap fonts not being there, *cyg-out.txt* output from
cygwin and *zenmap-win_install.log* which I'd be most grateful if
somebody, anybody (everybody, scream) would cast their eye upon.
Additionally, here's some anomalies from the Visual C++ BuildLogs:
In nbase:
Compiling...
strcasecmp.c
nbase_time.c
nbase_str.c
.\nbase_str.c(208) : warning C4244: 'return' : conversion from '__w64
int' to 'int', possible loss of data
nbase_rnd.c
nbase_misc.c
nbase_memalloc.c
inet_pton.c
inet_ntop.c
getopt.c
Generating Code...
Creating library...
Results Build log was saved at
"file://c:\nmap\nbase\Release\BuildLog.htm"
nbase - 0 error(s), 1 warning(s)
In nselib-bin:
Compiling...
bit.c
Compiling manifest to resources...
Linking...
LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/INCREMENTAL' due to '/OPT:ICF'
specification
Creating library .\bit.lib and object .\bit.exp
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'LIBCMT' conflicts with use of other
libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
Embedding manifest...
LINK : warning LNK4075: ignoring '/INCREMENTAL' due to '/OPT:ICF'
specification
Creating library .\bit.lib and object .\bit.exp
LINK : warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'LIBCMT' conflicts with use of other
libs; use /NODEFAULTLIB:library
Performing Post-Build Event...
C:\nmap\mswin32\..\nselib-bin\bit.dll
1 File(s) copied
Results Build log was saved at
"file://c:\nmap\nselib-bin\Release\BuildLog.htm"
nse_bitlib - 0 error(s), 4 warning(s)
In nsock:
Compiling...
nsock_write.c
nsock_utils.c
nsock_timers.c
nsock_read.c
nsock_pool.c
nsock_pcap.c
nsock_iod.c
nsock_event.c
nsock_core.c
nsock_connect.c
.\src\nsock_connect.c(106) : warning C4267: 'argument' : conversion from
'size_t' to 'int', possible loss of data
netutils.c
gh_list.c
filespace.c
error.c
Generating Code...
Creating library...
Results Build log was saved at
"file://c:\nmap\nsock\Release\BuildLog.htm"
nsock - 0 error(s), 1 warning(s)
jah
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