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Compiling Nmap on Windows from Source
-Download the latest Nmap source distribution from . It has the name nmap-version.tar.bz2 or nmap-version.tgz. Those are the same tar file compressed using gzip or bzip2, respectively. The bzip2-compressed version is smaller.
+Download the latest Nmap source distribution from . It has the name nmap-version.tar.bz2 or nmap-version.tgz. Those are the same tar file compressed using bzip2 or gzip, respectively. The bzip2-compressed version is smaller.
-Uncompress the source code file you just downloaded. Recent releases of the free Cygwin distributionCygwin can handle both the .tar.bz2 and .tgz formats. Use the command tar xvjf nmap-version.tar.bz2 or tar xvzf nmap-version.tgz, respectively. Alternatively, the common WinZip application can decompress the .tgz version.
+Uncompress the source code file you just downloaded. Recent releases of the free Cygwin distributionCygwin can handle both the .tar.bz2 and .tgz formats. Use the command tar xvjf nmap-version.tar.bz2 or tar xvzf nmap-version.tgz, respectively. Alternatively, the common WinZip application can decompress these files.
Open Visual Studio and the Nmap solution file ( nmap-version/mswin32/nmap.sln).
Choose Build Solution from the Build Menu. Nmap should begin compiling, and end with the line -- Done --
saying that all projects built successfully and there were zero failures.