Re: win32 compile error

["Rob Nicholls" <robert () everythingeverything co uk>]

Sorry, I should have spotted this sooner. The file windows.h is actually
in /usr/include/w32api, so you need to make sure this is included in the
search path.

I figured you'd made some private changes, as there aren't many other
reasons why people would want to compile 4.20 from source :)

And if all that doesn't work, at least you should be able to use the free
edition of Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition (+ the SDK) as "Plan B" ;)


Rob


> I did in fact include the /usr/lib/w32api directory but couldn't find
> windows.h in it at all.
>
> Any other place I can get this or find it? I actually do have the latest
> cygwin installed already. Unfortunately I have patched nmap for some
> private
> usages and need to compile this myself on windows, else I would just
> download it.
>
> TF.
>
>
> On 10/11/07, Rob Nicholls <robert () everythingeverything co uk> wrote:
> > For reference, instructions on how to compile nmap on Windows are
> > available here:
> >
> > http://insecure.org/nmap/install/inst-windows.html#inst-win-source
> >
> > This states "Many people have asked whether Nmap can be compiled with
> > the
> > gcc/g++ included with Cygwin or other compilers. Some users have
> > reported
> > success with this, but we don't maintain instructions for building Nmap
> > under Cygwin" (probably because most Windows users grab the binaries).
> >
> > I'd like to quickly point out that I managed to compile SVN rev 5916
> > okay
> > using Visual Studio .NET 2003 after modifying all of the .vcproj files
> > to
> > say "7.10" instead of "8.00" so there's no need to grab 2005 if you have
> > either version of VS.NET (as I suspect it'd work in VS.NET 2002 by
> > changing "8.00" to "7.00", although I've not tried this).
> >
> > Getting back on topic, I believe the windows.h file is part of the
> > w32api
> > files that are released by cygwin (I think MinGW have their own version
> > of
> > windows.h too). There are plenty of mirrors
> > (http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html):
> >
> > http://cygwin.osuosl.org/release/w32api/
> > http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/w32api/
> >
> > http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/cygwin/release/w32api/
> >
> > The files may already be on your machine (e.g.
> > c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api),
> > I think there have been issues in the past where the setup program put
> > files directly in /usr/lib/w32api rather than in /lib/w32api (and if you
> > try and access the folder in bash, you'll probably get an error
> > message),
> > so you may find that installing the latest version of cygwin, or moving
> > the w32api folder (using Windows) from c:\cygwin\usr\lib\w32api into
> > c:\cygwin\lib\w32api might fix things.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> > > Trying to compile nmap, getting the following error..
> > >
> > > 1>c:\cygwin\home\peter\nmap-4.20\nbase\nbase_winunix.h(111) : fatal
> > error
> > > C1083: Cannot open include file: 'windows.h': No such file or
> > directory
> > > it appears over and over... is it not finding the SDK or something?
> > how
> > > can
> > > I fix this?
> > >
> > > Any help really appreciated.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > TF.
> > >
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