Zenmap Build Guide

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

Is there any chance someone can look into updating the build guide? 

I'd offer to do it, but I've spent the last few days hitting my head against
a brick wall trying to find a combination of third party binaries that work
properly together (I've even tried Python 2.5 and 2.7 - along with modules
built for those versions, although there isn't really any support for 2.7 so
I had to give up trying to go forwards). 

I initially hit problems with "ImportError: No module named gio", which I
think was introduced when David included it in setup.py in r20329. David's
message says he's using GTK+ 2.18.7, but the build guide talks about 2.14
(which I had originally been using) and 2.16. After some digging around, it
sounds like GTK+ 2.14 might be too old to contain gio so I tried moving to
2.16 (and some newer versions), with little success (I've tried to find
newer win32 builds of the other packages too). In the few cases where I've
managed to get Zenmap to compile, it either crashes immediately or (usually)
starts, but will crash when trying to run a scan ("Error executing command
'module' object has no attribute 'STARF_USESHOWWINDOW'").

I've also hit some problems with the third party module installers saying
"Error in sys.excepthook" which doesn't sound promising. There have been
some other comments about this online:
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-Error-installing-some-required-pyGTK-componants-
td29732212.html

I'm trying to build it on Windows 7, one system is x64, the other is x86.

Cheers,

Rob


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