Re: ncat: Windows build difficulties

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 12:12:57AM +1000, Adam Baxter wrote:
> The current sticking point
> *   c:\git\nmap\ncat\ncat_ssl.c(211,40): error C2440: '=': cannot convert from 'const void *' to 'const char *' 
> [c:\git\n
> map\ncat\ncat.vcxproj]
>
> Which the line of code is https://github.com/nmap/nmap/blob/master/ncat/ncat_ssl.c#L211,  dot = memchr(p, '.', 
> remaining); 

I think this error occurs when trying to compile C code with a C++
compiler. The pointer conversion is implicit in C but must be explicit
in C++.

I'm not sure how the C++ compiler came to be used, though—maybe check
the changes you made to the solution file.
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