Building Nmap on Windows

This page is a collection of notes for building the Nmap installers. If you just want to build the Nmap binaries for Windows, use the official guide.

Resources

• Guide
• Zenmap installer guide
• Upgrade OpenSSL
• Upgrade Python

Prerequisites

• cygwin
• Visual Studio
• NSIS
• Python (for Windows, not cygwin version)

Cygwin packages

Search for packages by file name. Example: /diff.exe

Required

• perl
• subversion
• make
• zip
• unzip

Recommended

• openssh
• vim
• diffutils
• patch