I asked the same question a few weeks ago and the general consensus was NO SUPPORT. Apparently Cygwin's forking is so chunky as to make the software perform VERY poorly. There were also some concerns with support expressed by Renaud. I would seem to be possible for a talented individual to get it compiled and working, but will probably not be supported out of the box unless something changes.
Mark Lachniet > Is there anywhere that shows the current status of cygwin portability, > and advice? All I can gather for certain are the following change log > statements. > > 1.1.7 > . changes by Iouri Pletnev (Iouri.Pletnec at xacta.com) > - Ported under Cygwin > > 1.1.9 > . changes by Renaud Deraison (deraison at nessus.org) > - Fixed the "wrong call to getopt" problem which would make Nessus > segfault when built with cygwin, and which would prevent options from > working under Solaris & FreeBSD (thanks to Udo Schweigert) > > > But on the website I can't find anything about cygwin at all. Reading > between the lines of some nessus-devel discussions it seems that 1.2.4 > probably does not compile under cygwin. **Could you add a line or two > somewhere (News/FAQ?)** which shows that nessus can or cannot be > compiled and made to work in cygwin. I've been trying to compile > 1.2.3/1.2.4 under cygwin and failing to compile libnasl (winpcap > issues), but I'm not sure whether to persevere, and I'm sure this must > have been pursued by others as well. > > John Dargie. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
