Building the Nmap Installer for Windows ======================================= I. ZENMAP BUILD DEPENDENCIES I've listed the build dependencies for Zenmap, the versions I am using, and where to get them: GTK (2.10.11) - http://gladewin32.sourceforge.net Python (2.5.1) - http://www.python.org/download PyGTK (2.10.4) - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/pygtk PyCairo (1.2.6) - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/pycairo PyGObject (2.12.3) - http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/pygobject Py2exe (0.6.6) - http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe Be sure to grab the PyGTK, PyCairo, etc. for Python 2.5 and not 2.4! Using the default install directories in these installers is important, especially for Python (C:\Python25) and GTK (C:\GTK). See Section IV if you change the directories. II. OTHER REQUIREMENTS You'll need Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 and the Platform SDK for compilation. Directions for obtaining those are at: http://nmap.org/install/inst-windows.html#inst-win-source You'll also need Cygwin installed in order to build the Nmap installer (not required for normal compiling). You'll find it at http://www.cygwin.com And last, you'll need the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System installed. You can download if from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download III. BUILDING With all of the requirements and dependencies installed, open up a Cygwin shell and go to the mswin32 directory in the Nmap directory and type "make". This may take several minutes, and will create an executable installer and a zip archive (nmap--setup.exe and nmap--win32.zip). IV. INSTALLATION PATHS / PROBLEMS If you have Python installed to a directory other than C:\Python25, then you need to edit the copy_and_compile.bat file under zenmap/install_scripts/windows and change the "set PythonEXE" line with your installed directory. If you have GTK installed to a different directory, follow the same directions as for Python, but edit the "set GTKDir" line. -- Kris Katterjohn 08/2007