[Chiznibitz]

I want NMAP (http://www.insecure.org/nmap/) and I want it to run on OS X. The problem is that I've never really compiled a source distribution without step-by-step instructions. I tried with nmap but I don't think it will run on a PPC. Then again, I have no idea. I would appreciate ANY advice on how to get this thing running in command-line mode. Thanks.

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eloquence. It is force.
Like fire it is a
dangerous servant and
a fearful master."
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[Scrod]

No porting needs to be done. It can run on Mac OS X with a straight recompile. I installed it on my computer just last week, in fact.

Here's a good resource to get you starting on compiling apps in Mac OS X:
http://www.macaddict.com/osx/xphiles/11_02_00.html

[battlej]

compiled and ran fine for me too. no proglems.

[gee308]

Which nmap version did you try? I tried the latest stable from source and the latest beta from freebsd ports source and they both didnt compile. Thanks for info.

[Angus_D]

A friend of mine just wrote a funky GUI to nmap, I'm currently writing an Objective-C wrapper for Security.framework so he can authenticate (some nmap functions need root privs, for some reason).

[Chiznibitz]

Yeah, I copied the config files from /usr/libexec/config.* into a couple directories and it worked fine. Thanks to whoever posted a link to macaddict's article.

[gee308]

Originally posted by Chiznibitz:
Yeah, I copied the config files from /usr/libexec/config.* into a couple directories and it worked fine. Thanks to whoever posted a link to macaddict's article.

Do you have the article link, i copied only the guess.config or somethign liek thsat but it still bombs
also anyone try compiling dsniff yet?

[Angus_D]

You'll notice that the link was posted higher up the thread. You'll need to copy config.guess AND config.sub, though.

[gee308]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
You'll notice that the link was posted higher up the thread. You'll need to copy config.guess AND config.sub, though.

K, I see, I need config.sub, while on the subject og compiling, did anyone get dsniff or python to compile? You probably need X though for dsniff to get the webspy to work though.

[gee308]

sorry, it still doesnt compile, dont know what im doing wrong(im a unix guy too)
history:
tar -xzvf nmap-2.53.tar.gz
cd nmap-2.53
cp /usr/libexec/config.* .
./configure
result is:
loading cache .././config.cache
checking host system type... configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
configure: error: ./configure failed for libpcap-possiblymodified

I tried erasing config.cache and redoing but that didnt work, any suggestions?

[Angus_D]

You'll probably need to cp the config.sub and config.guess files into the libpcap-mossiblymodified directory, too.

And yes, plenty of people have Python working. Python 2.1 compiles just-about-out-of-the-box, if you follow the instructions in the README (or is it INSTALL? )