Re: [NSE] Lua 5.2 Upgrade

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 04:04:56PM -0700, Fyodor wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 01:43:38AM -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> > Over the past few months I've been working on a branch that upgrades
> > NSE to use Lua 5.2. I'll start off by giving you the location of the
> > branch so you can try it out:
>
> Thanks Patrick, this is exciting stuff!  I'm pretty sure we will want
> to upgrade to Lua 5.2.  I tested your branch
> (https://svn.nmap.org/nmap-exp/patrick/nse-lua52) on Linux and it
> seems to be working fine.  On Windows, it compiled, but I haven't been
> able to get it to work.  It gives me this message:
>
> $ ./nmap -A -T4 scanme.nmap.org
>
> Starting Nmap 5.61TEST5 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-04-09 15:56 Pacific Daylight Time
> NSE: Script Engine Scan Aborted.
> An error was thrown by the engine: ...ome\fyodor\nse-lua52\mswin32\nmap-5.61TEST5/nse_main.lua:902: attempt to call 
> upvalue 'unpack' (a nil value)
> stack traceback:
>         ...ome\fyodor\nse-lua52\mswin32\nmap-5.61TEST5/nse_main.lua:902: in function 'run'
>         ...ome\fyodor\nse-lua52\mswin32\nmap-5.61TEST5/nse_main.lua:1238: in function 
> <...ome\fyodor\nse-lua52\mswin32\nmap-5.61TEST5/nse_main.lua:1145>
>         [C]: in ?
> Nmap scan report for scanme.nmap.org (74.207.244.221)
> [Rest of Nmap report cut.  It was fine except that there wasn't any
>  NSE results]
>
> I haven't tried it on Mac OS X yet.  Hopefully someone will give it a
> try on that platform once the Windows issue is fixed.

I tested it on OS X 10.7.3 without problems.

David Fifield
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