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

[Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Richard Browne <richard () timestone com au>
wrote:

> Yes it’s true that setting v120_xp switches to the older Windows SDK. But
> it’s not the case that the “newer API” has bug fixes. The Windows SDK is
> basically just a huge collection of header files. The WIN32 API is baked
> into Windows. So no matter what SDK you use, your exe still calls the same
> functions exported from KERNEL32.dll for example. The newer SDK merely has
> new stuff in the headers (eg. function declarations).

That's good to know!

Fair enough. But right now, supporting XPsp3 is trivial. Why not wait until
> there is an actual reason to stop support. That is my humble opinion.

OK, I'll see if we can easily enable it again for the 6.49BETA5 release.  I
don't have anything against XP, but I just don't want to spend much effort
supporting a platform that even Microsoft ceased support for long ago.

I am an experienced Windows developer and I would be happy to help if
> needed.

Thanks!

-Fyodor

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