Re: [PATCH] RE: [PATCH] RE: Zenmap Build Guide

['David Fifield' <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 06:04:54PM -0000, Rob Nicholls wrote:
> Sorry for the slow and rather lengthy reply, I hit an annoying issue that I
> think explains the comment in the Zenmap Build Guide about GTK+ 2.16 working
> on Windows 7 but not on XP. I don't think it's a GTK problem, I think it's a
> "built on Windows 7" problem, which I suspect is more of a py2exe problem!
>
> After playing with depends.exe and doing some investigative work I spotted
> that py2exe was including some of my Windows 7 DLLs, which XP didn't seem to
> like (and the error message logged to zenmap.exe.log wasn't very helpful).
> After I told py2exe to exclude four DLLs by editing setup.py (see attached
> patch) it now seems to run okay on XP and Vista (where I initially saw the
> same problem).
>
> When I tried it on a clean Vista (SP1) VM it initially displayed this
> Windows error message:
>
> The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration
> is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more detail.
>
> Rather oddly, it seemed to work fine on a clean Windows 7 VM, so perhaps MS
> already include native support for the 2008 runtimes? I couldn't find
> anything online to prove that though.
>
> I then installed the 2008 SP1 (with ATL) redistributable hoping that Zenmap
> might be happy, and it was! I suspect either Python are wrong when they say
> the 2008 RTM version should be used, or (much more likely) the 2008 SP1
> redistributable also installs 2008 RTM files at the same time (why else is
> Microsoft's installer more than twice as large as the older version?). I
> presume that means that Nmap's 2008 SP1 with ATL redistributable was sorting
> out our Zenmap issues without us realising (if we'd supplied a manifest and
> specific DLLs we probably would have seen it sooner).
>
> I'll do some more digging, but we probably need to re-include the 2008
> redistributable (we could probably drop down to the 2008 with ATL fix
> redistributable, rather than 2008 SP1 with ATL, and halve the size of the
> vcredist.exe we need to supply) or go the less elegant route of including a
> manifest and the required DLLs with zenmap.exe.

I saw that you re-added the 2008 SP1 package. Thanks for that. That's
probably the way to go for now.

David Fifield
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