Re: %! is not a valid Win32 application

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Todd,

The last version of Nmap that works on Windows XP is 7.12. The decision to
drop XP support was not made lightly. In the end, we had to consider:

* Lack of NDIS 6 support, meaning that Windows XP users can't use the new
Npcap packet capture library with its increased speed and new features.
* Newer socket management features like Poll and IOCP that make NSE and
version detection much faster on newer Windows versions.
* Microsoft support for WIndows XP ending April 2014.
* Cost of testing and maintaining a code base across so many Windows API
versions.

Your options, then, are to run Nmap 7.12, build Nmap yourself for Windows
XP, or use a supported OS. We will try to make it more clear during
installation that Windows XP is not supported.

Thanks,
Dan

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 12:25 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo () zoho com>
wrote:

> Dear NMap Community,
>
> I installed
>
>       https://nmap.org/dist/nmap-7.50-setup.exe
>
> on a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine.  During the install, I
> got told that NDIS6 was not supported.  I did not care
> as the machine was using NDIS5 drivers.  The install
> completed normally.
>
> When I fired it up and ran
>
>     nmap -p [port] --open -PN -sV -oG ssh_hosts [ip or network]
>
> (yes I made the substitutions in the brackets.)
>
> I got back:
>
>      "%! is not a valid Win32 application"
>
> Any words of wisdom?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
>
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