Re: nselib-bin

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:02:29PM +0100, jah wrote:
> What's happening with nselib-bin?  I ask because I see it's now static
> linked, and I'm seeing some build and runtime errors because of this change.
>
> Specifically, mswin32/Release/nselib-bin (created by a post build event
> in nse_bitlib.vcproj) is referenced in mswin32/makefile and because it
> doesn't exist, halts the build.
> Next, mswin32/nsi/nmap.nsi references nselib-bin and fails when it's not
> present.
> During script execution:
> SCRIPT ENGINE: error while initializing Lua State:
> 'nselib-bin/' not a directory

Thanks for these reports. We were keeping the directory around while we
made sure the static linking worked, but it's gone now (I just removed
it).

There are two files left that refer to newlib-bin. I haven't removed the
references from them because I don't have a Windows machine right now
and I can't test the changes.

In mswin32/nsis/Nmap.nsi I removed the line that installed the
nselib-bin directory, however I left in the lines that remove it on
uninstallation. The reason for that is I worried that the
C:\Program Files\Nmap directory wouldn't be fully removed when upgrading
and the installer would get a message that it's unsafe to install. I
would appreciate it if someone could try it out. Remove the lines that
say
          RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\nselib-bin"
and try running the installer with the C:\Program Files\Nmap\nselib-bin
directory present.

mswin32/nmap.sln still refers to nse_bitlib and nselib-bin. It's
probably safest to edit that file with Visual Studio.

David Fifield

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