Re: Zenmap Build Guide

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:11:15AM +0100, Rob Nicholls wrote:
> 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 haven't tried starting a new build environment from scratch for a
while, but there's nothing in the build instructions that looks
inaccurate to me. Here are the versions I have installed:

Windows XP SP3
gtk+-bundle_2.18.7-20100213_win32
Python 2.6.1
Cairo 1.8.8
pygtk-2.16.0-py2.6
pygobject-2.20.0-py2.6
pycairo-1.8.6-py2.6
py2exe-0.6.9-py2.6

GTK+ is installed in C:\GTK and Python is in C:\Python26.

There's a note here about possibly requiring
subprocess._subprocess.STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW instead of
subprocess.STARF_USESHOWWINDOW.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1016384/cross-platform-subprocess-with-hidden-window/3443174#3443174

Crashing immediately upon launching is what was happening to me before I
added gio.

Are you able to run Zenmap without using py2exe? Like this:

        cd nmap\zenmap
        C:\Python26\python.exe zenmap

David Fifield
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