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

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:45:49PM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
> 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?

Yes, if you have the knowledge this task takes, I think it's a good job
for you.

David Fifield
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