Re: %! is not a valid Win32 application

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 <[email protected]>
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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