Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore

[Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Richard Browne <richard () timestone com au>
wrote:

> > Though if someone has any good evidence that v120_xp is just as good as
> v120 for the modern Windows users, that would definitely change the
> calculation.
>
> 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 info and we enabled v120_xp for 6.49BETA5.  Has anyone tried
this version on Windows XP?  Please let us know if it worked!

Cheers,
Fyodor

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