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Re: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:38:22 -0700
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 11:21:50AM +0100, Rob Nicholls wrote:
I suspect the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 redistributable installer fixes this issue, although I've not tried it, but Nmap is still compiled using VC++ 2008 RTM so we need to use the earlier installer. Perhaps we should consider moving Nmap to Visual C++ 2008 SP1? It's almost impossible to get hold of the original RTM release of VC++ 2008.
That makes sense to me. I just upgraded to Visual C++ 2008 Express SP1 (http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/) and made some minor Nmap changes and it now compiles fine with this version. I also updated vcredist_x86.exe to the 2008 SP1 version. MS did bloat it to more than double its previous size: -rw------- 1 fyodor fyodor 1821192 2008-06-15 17:39 vcredist_x86.exe -rw-rw-r-- 1 fyodor fyodor 4216840 2009-04-25 13:23 vcredist_x86.exe With the new vcredist and the new compiler version, our setup.exe expands from 13 megs to 15 megs and our win32.zip from 4 megs to 7 megs. I don't think there is much we can really do about that. I hope to do a new release on Monday or Tuesday which will be built with the new compiler version. Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
Current thread:
- Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Liam (Apr 24)
- RE: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Rob Nicholls (Apr 25)
- Re: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Liam (Apr 25)
- Re: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Fyodor (Apr 25)
- Re: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Liam (Apr 25)
- RE: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Craig Humphrey (Apr 26)
- RE: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Craig Humphrey (Apr 26)
- RE: Install Bug - nmap-4.85BETA8-setup.exe Rob Nicholls (Apr 25)