I have a development PC with Windows 7 (APACHE / MYSQL / PHP) and I want to install "Skipfish" (http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/) in order to check my web app for security/vulnerability issues. I read the instructions but I can't understand it.
I cite the source page
The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments
Since it isn't a "real" windows application you don't have any file windows can execute (such as a .exe or .msi file). You need to use the http://www.cygwin.com/ tool and then more or less use it as an Linux application.
Read up on the instructions on skipfish and Cygwin, and then return with any more specific questions you may have.
I think it is too late, but... Complied version is here: https://didasec.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/skipfish-2-10b-for-windows/
Since the original source is not available so it is shared in GDrive. Use it.
Skipfish for Windows
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I like to use command line to install Tomcat as a Windows service. There should be the service.bat file for this purpose. But it is missing from Tomcat 7.0.37 and 7.0.39.
We can not use Windows installer for embedded, so this is not an option.
Thanks for help.
Are you sure you have downloaded the right package?
From the download page for the latest Tomcat 7 version (7.0.39 at the moment of writing this) choose depending on your needs:
32-bit Windows zip
64-bit Windows zip
Both packages have service.bat in the bin directory.
Also on the download page read the README file for packaging information. It explains what every distribution contains.
UPDATE
From the README file for packaging information (emphasis mine):
apache-tomcat-[version].zip or .tar.gz
Base distribution. These distributions do not include the Windows service wrapper nor the compiled APR/native library for Windows.
apache-tomcat-[version]-windows-x86.zip
32-bit Windows specific distribution that includes the Windows service wrapper and the compiled APR/native library for use with
32-bit JVMs on both 32 and 64 bit Windows platforms.
apache-tomcat-[version]-windows-x64.zip
64-bit Windows specific distribution that includes the Windows service wrapper and the compiled APR/native library for use with
64-bit JVMs on x64 Windows platforms.
You may also find it useful reading the RUNNING.txt file, which is available in every distribution. It contains important details about installing/configuring/running Apache Tomcat and also Windows and *nix specific instructions.
Tomcat is a Java application. So it is cross-platform. But if you want/need to utilize Windows specific features, like Windows services in your case, then you should download the Windows specific distribution.
Other thoughts
I myself on my Windows machine use "Base distribution" (i.e. not Windows specific, but an ordinary ZIP file available on the download page under Binary Distributions => Core) without any problem whatsoever, because I prefer not to bother with installations (i.e. running the installer), but just to simply unpack the distribution to the desired directory and manually configure it using the related config files. It's so much easier and convenient both to install (just unpack) and delete the installation (just delete without running any uninstaller), and it's more portable. Plus this way you can install multiple versions of Tomcat on the same machine (in case you need this for some development/testing reasons).
Here is a very useful step-by-step tutorial with some nice illustrations and explanations:
How to Install Apache Tomcat 7/8 (on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu) and Get
Started with Java Servlet
Programming
In the official web site, under core. Don't download the version tagged zip. Download the version tagged 32-bit Windows zip or 64-bit Windows zip. You will find Service.bat under Bin
I have done a little work on lazarus' free pascal. So when a client asked me to write an application for a mac, after the initial, "it can't be done" stage. (followed by an asp.net maybe stage) i thought about writing it using lazarus.
Question is. I have only a virtual machine running mac OSX, this means that i do not really want to develop on the mac. However, i just cannot seem to get the applications that i have written in lazarus on windows to work on the mac. I have tried the deployment using the Lazarus Wiki and the MACOS folder is empty and so when i put it on the mac it doesn't run the application.
What is the best way of doing this or am i barking up the wrong tree?
It seems you want to do cross-compiling, which is theoretically possible, but may not be practical, for the reasons mentioned by Marco above.
As an alternative, you could install XCode, FreePascal, and Lazarus on a MacOX machine. You could still do your development and some testing on Windows/Linux. When you hit a certain milestone, you can copy your source code to the Mac and compile your application to test and give to the user.
Even if it were possible to easily cross-compile, there some minor differences between platforms, so (especially if it's a GUI app), you would want to test it on an actual MacOS box before giving it to the client.
I've taken the route described by Noah - and I was incredibly surprised that after about three weeks development on Windows, it took about 10 minutes to get the application running on the Mac.
My route was to install Xcode 4.3 on an old Mac Mini running snow leopard, then install Lazarus using the fink version as described here. This took a while but was done in an evening.
Then I just copied my folder across to the Mac, opened the lpi on the Mac, compiled it. It failed so I removed a windows references, recompiled, and it was working. I was truly amazed.
What linker and assembler do you use to generate binaries? To my best knowledge the linker for recent OS X versions is not available in source.
Afaik what you want (crosscompiling to Mac) is not possible for recent versions (and I've done it for PowerPC myself in the past).
The easiest is to use the Unix "file" command on the binary to see what is generated, and make sure it reads something with "MachO" in it. Easiest is if you have a Linux install (where this command is pretty standard), but versions can be found for windows too (cygwin, mingw and 3rd party)
I want to write software for the Linux platform, but I would like to do this on a Windows OS. I'm only developing Linux software for a remote server of mine, so it wouldn't be worth it to switch to Linux just for that. I don't think it's as simple as using a cross-compiler, because I will be writing code that uses headers specifically for Linux, and I would like to test the programs on Windows. I don't want to use VirtalBox etc.
If possible, install the entire development environment on the linux server. Then install an Xserver (e.g XMing) and an ssh client (e.g putty) on your Windows box. Then run the dev. environment remotely.
The big pro of doing this is that the linux windows integrate seamlessly in the Windows enviornment. I used to work with dual platform development and had a virtual linux box on my PC. Still, I used ssh+X-forwarding to access it. This way I got full copy-paste support etc. between the environments.
Now WSL (also known as "Bash on Windows") exists, you can run native Linux binaries directly on Windows. With snapcraft you can package Linux applications entirely under Windows, without using a VM. Might be a better option. I made a super quick video to explain it.
CoLinux allows you to run linux side-by-side with Windows.
You could try VirtualBox and virtualize a Linux environment from within Windows. I do the reverse of what you are trying to do and run Windows from Linux, and it works quite well.
If you are familiar with .NET and C# you can use Mono for your client.
You can use Visual Studio to develop and the Mono runtime one Linux to run the application.
You do need to keep away from windows specific code.
Maybe Cygwin could help. You don't need an entire virtual machine and only the api is emulated.
You could use g++ in cygwin to target a linux binary. It's a pain to setup as you noted you'll need the entire toolchain (not just the compiler). I've used crosstool (domain name makes me giggle every time) in the past with success. It looks like someone did the work already http://metamod-p.sourceforge.net/cross-compiling.on.windows.for.linux.html
However I've never targeted linux from windows. I'd install a virtual linux box, way easier and you're likely going to want to do your testing on a real linux box before going live.
Cygwin isn't linux so you can't test your linux binaries there.
Out of curiosity what's keeping you from doing the development on linux? If the server the app runs on isn't mission critical you could even develop there.
we have a small app that doing trivial stuff, no GUI.
we was using Linux, but the library/framework available for Linux is highly less than that for windows, it was such a pain to develop under Linux.
So we want to use windows, but windows is too big for the trivial app, is there any solution that i can use windows and not losing OS's lightweight?
any advices appreciated.
What kind of applications are you building?
1) some older versions of windows have less bloat, but you wouldn't want these running on public networks because they don't get security updates. Plus, the latest/greatest libraries may not run on them
2) If you're running command-line server utilities, you could try Windows 2008 Server Core, which is a console-only installation
3) You might want to try Wine or Mono to run your windows/.NET framework-based application.
You should try a "Windows PE" (sometimes also called "minint") installation (installation guide here), which is a trimmed-down version based on Windows XP or Vista.
This does not make sense, sorry. If you have a CLI program under Linux why shouldn't you be able to write on CLI program on Windows?
I've been looking on golang.org for a Windows compiler, but I can't seem to find it. I can only see Linux and OS X compilers. Does anyone know if Go programming can be done on Windows, or is it something that Google hasn't implemented yet?
Update: appears that as of now (Nov. 2012) golang.org has official binary releases for windows 32/x86_64.
There are now installers for Windows, see Go under Windows
HelloWorld.go
package main
func main() {
println("Hello World!");
}
Compile with 8g, link with 8l and then execute. Example:
8g HelloWorld.go
8l -o HelloWorld.exe HelloWorld.8
HelloWorld
It hasn't made it onto the Go Lang FAQ yet, but from the changelog:
Why doesn't Go run on Windows?
We understand that a significant fraction of computers in the world
run Windows and it would be great if those computers could run Go
programs. However, the Go team is small and we don't have the
resources to do a Windows port at the moment. We would be
more than willing to answer questions and offer advice to anyone
willing to develop a Windows version.
Yes! As of 2012 the Go homepage offers an official Windows installer (32 or 64 bit) https://golang.org/dl/
Despite the fact that Go is only two days old, this question has already become a FAQ on the Go mailinglist. (Unfortunately, it has not yet been added to the FAQ list on the website.)
Basically, Go is done by a very small group of people, so they simply do not have the time nor the resources to do a Windows port. That very small group of people also happens to be the people who invented Unix, so that was kind of a natural first target.
So if you, like me, are on Windows a lot of the time and want to do some Go programming right now, you can do it on a VM. I use VirtualBox running Ubuntu in seemless mode. I already had it set up because I like Linux better than Windows for a lot of things.
Building and working with Go has been totally painless for me. I have a Bash open in a terminal to run my build and try my app. The source directory is a shared folder between Windows and Linux (a VirtualBox feature but I'm sure VMWare has the same thing). I edit my code in Komodo Edit on Windows and use Mercurial for the same source code on both OSes.
Not yet.
The authors of Go have very very deeply roots on non Windows operating systems ( Trivia: who of them created no less than the very UNIX operating system )
So, don't expect to have a Windows port from them any time soon.
The language is open source, so it will be just a matter of time ( make it from 6 - 8 ehrm months ) for a Windows implementation will be available.
Although there is no Windows version at the moment, it can presumably be compiled using Cygwin on a Windows platform.
Various efforts to port Go to windows are underway.
The most advance and that can already build and run some code is here: http://code.google.com/r/hectorchu-go-windows/
Installation of Go on windows is straight forward if you use the experimental x32 windows port . Documentation of the steps for Go installation on windows can found here
You will probably also want the MinGW tools (bash, make, gcc, etc...):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
and the GTK+ files and tools (the "all-in-one bundle" includes pkg-config):
http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php