Re: [Ncat] Question: What DLLs are required to run ncat on Windows?

[Shinnok <admin () shinnok com>]

Hi,

On 05/24/2011 12:30 AM, Fyodor wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:19:03PM -0500, Daniel Miller wrote:
> > internal network. If I choose to upload Ncat, what DLLs will it require on
> > the target system? Especially, what is unlikely to be there already? Is
> > there a way to build it "statically linked" to avoid DLL issues?
>
> I agree that a "portable Ncat" would be very useful to many people.
> We've had this in the Nmap TODO file for quite a while:
>
> o Investigate and document how easy it is to drop Ncat.exe by itself
>   on other systems and have it work.  We should also look into the
>   dependencies of Nmap and Zenmap.  It may be instructive to look at
>   "Portable Firefox"
>   (http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable) which is
>   built using open source technology from portableapps.com, or look at
>   "The Network Toolkit" by Cace
>   (http://www.cacetech.com/products/network_toolkit.html).  For Nmap
>   and Nping, we may want to improve our Winpcap to load as a DLL
>   without requiring installation.  There is a separate TODO item for that.
>
> If anyone wants to investigate and try to find a solution for this,
> please do!

I can pick this up, if it's ok with David too?

Is portable Ncat desired only for Windows?

Best of wishes,
Shinnok
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