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Re: nmap


On Fri, 9 May 2003, Doug Jenkinson wrote:
> So, I'm trying to get nmap to run under cygwin, well, to at least
> make/install.
> Following the instructions from insecure.org/nmap, I have:
> > bzip2 -cd nmap-3.27.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
> > cd nmap-3.27
> > ./configure
> > make
> > su root
> > make install
> as an installation script for version 3.27.
> The problem is that I get these errors:
> > make: *** No rule to make target `libpcap-possiblymodified/Makefile',
> needed by `libpcap-possiblymodified/libpcap.a'.  Stop.
> > su: user root does not exist
> > make: *** No rule to make target `libpcap-possiblymodified/Makefile',
> needed by `libpcap-possiblymodified/libpcap.a'.  Stop.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight to these?  Anything at all would be
> appreciated, or even a flat stmt that it can't be done will be
> grungingly accepted.

Doug,

IIRC, libpcap is unix/linux dependent. There is better (well more 
portable) library, winpcap. You might try your luck there. There are also 
native Windows ports or nmap (GUI front-end and command line) available, 
and the command line nmap should work OK with Cygwin.

Elfyn

-- 
Elfyn McBratney
Systems Administrator
ABCtales.com



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