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Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore
From: Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 18:38:52 -0700
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Richard Browne <richard () timestone com au> wrote:
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 to know! Fair enough. But right now, supporting XPsp3 is trivial. Why not wait until
there is an actual reason to stop support. That is my humble opinion.
OK, I'll see if we can easily enable it again for the 6.49BETA5 release. I don't have anything against XP, but I just don't want to spend much effort supporting a platform that even Microsoft ceased support for long ago. I am an experienced Windows developer and I would be happy to help if
needed.
Thanks! -Fyodor
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Current thread:
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore, (continued)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Gisle Vanem (Jul 11)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Vlatko Kosturjak (Jul 15)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Gisle Vanem (Jul 15)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Ivan Shatsky (Jul 13)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Fyodor (Jul 22)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Richard Browne (Jul 22)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Fyodor (Jul 22)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Richard Browne (Jul 22)
- Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore Fyodor (Jul 22)
- RE: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore James M. Scardelis, CISA, CIPP, CIPP/IT, MCT, MCSE, CTT+ (Jul 26)