Re: Bug: nmap doesn't run on Windows XP anymore

[Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Richard Browne <richard () timestone com au>
wrote:

>  Hi folks
>
> I signed up to this mailing list to contribute to the "Not a valid win32
> application" error that occurs with the latest nmap on XP.
>
> The problem is the PE header is marked with SUBSYSTEM 6.0, which means
> Vista or later. For XP, the linker command line needs to have:
> /SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS,5.01
>
> If nmap is built with Visual Studio 2013 (which I think it is since it
> links with MSVCR120), the right way to build for XP is to select "x120_xp"
> for the Platform Toolset.

Thanks for the details.  I think if you or someone else writes up
instructions for compiling the latest Nmap using Visual C++ Express to
support XP, that would be useful for all the XP users and might help us
potentially make an XP-compatible installer if there is enough demand.

I hope nmap continues to support XP. It's an important platform that lots
> of people still use (including myself).

For what it's worth, here are the version stats for Windows users browsing
Nmap.org in the last month (from Google Analytics):

63.96% Windows 7
25.68% Windows 8.1
  4.68% Windows XP
  2.90% Windows 8
  1.56% Windows NT
  0.78% Windows Vista
  0.43% Windows Server 2003
  0.01% Windows 2000

I'm not sure where Windows Server 2008/2012 are.

And while we're looking at stats, here are the overall OS versions from
folks browsing the site:

70.68% Windows
13.02% Linux
10.20% Macintosh
  3.56% Android
  1.81% iOS
  0.10% Windows Phone
  0.08% ChromeOS
  0.07% Blackberry
  0.02% FreeBSD

Cheers,
Fyodor

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