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

[Richard Browne <richard () timestone com au>]

>     > Though if someone has any good evidence that v120_xp is just as
>     good as v120 for the modern Windows users, that would definitely
>     change the calculation.
>
>     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 info and we enabled v120_xp for 6.49BETA5.  Has anyone 
> tried this version on Windows XP?  Please let us know if it worked!
I installed 6.49BETA5 on XPsp3 and it all seems good. Installs fine. 
nmap runs fine. Thanks for listening.
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