Hey guys,
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:32 PM, David Fifield <david_at_bamsoftware.com> wrote:
>> > So, does _WIN32_WINNT *have* to be set to _WIN32_WINNT_WIN2K, or can
>> > it be something slightly newer, like maybe _WIN32_WINNT_WIN2KSP1?
>> >
>> > Of course I could hack a little in6addr_any for Ncat, but if Nmap or
>> > anything else using Nbase wants any of these really common IPv6
>> > definitions, this will be a problem.
>>
>> We compile Nmap using Visual C++ 2008, and the respective runtime components
>> specify Windows 2000 SP4 as a minimum requirement*, so you can probably get
>> away with WIN2KSP1 (although people may still be able to compile our source
>> themselves using another compiler). I'd also be surprised if many people are
>> still using WIN2K RTM anywhere, but I'm sure we'll manage to annoy someone
>> somewhere if we leave them out ;)
>
> Setting it to SP4 sounds fine. The important thing is that it be set to
> *something* otherwise it defaults to Vista or Longhorn.
>
*sigh*
I was looking at the "Using the Windows Headers" MSDN page you posted
which lists the NTDDI macros and values (including NTDDI_WIN2KSP*).
The thing is I was in the mindset of _WIN32_WINNT so I must've just
glazed over the NTDDI prefix when looking at this and thought I was
looking at something different. There are only 5 _WIN32_WINNT values,
corresponding to major versions (2K, XP, Longhorn, etc) and without
SPs.
Since I had already modified nbase_winunix.h on my box to use
_WIN32_WINNT_WINXP so I could work on Ncat before looking around for
any permanent solution to this, I just left it there and continued on
thinking that it would work fine.
So.. since it just has to be something before Vista, XP works fine for
what I need and I guess will work for this other stuff too. But I
don't want to do anything without an OK on this.
> Sorry for the trouble.
>
No worries, as I seem to be causing as much trouble as I'm trying to solve.
> David Fifield
>
Thanks,
Kris Katterjohn
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