ZMap operates on GNU/Linux, macOS, and BSD. The latest stable version (v2.1.1) can be installed using most OS package managers:
OS | |
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Fedora 19+ or EPEL 6+ | sudo yum install zmap |
Debian 8+ or Ubuntu 14.04+ | sudo apt install zmap |
Gentoo | sudo emerge zmap |
macOS (using Homebrew) | brew install zmap |
Arch Linux | sudo pacman -S zmap |
ZMap has the following dependencies:
- CMake - Cross-platform, open-source build system
- GMP - Free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic
- gengetopt - Command line option parsing for C programs
- libpcap - Famous user-level packet capture library
- flex and byacc - Output filter lexer and parser generator
- json-c - JSON implementation in C
- libunistring - Unicode string library for C
- libdnet - (macOS Only) Gateway and route detection
Install the required dependencies with the following commands.
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On Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu):
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libgmp3-dev gengetopt libpcap-dev flex byacc libjson-c-dev pkg-config libunistring-dev
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On RHEL- and Fedora-based systems (including CentOS):
sudo yum install cmake gmp-devel gengetopt libpcap-devel flex byacc json-c-devel libunistring-devel
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On macOS systems (using Homebrew):
brew install pkg-config cmake gmp gengetopt json-c byacc libdnet libunistring
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To launch a shell inside a Docker container with the build dependencies mounted at
/src
:docker run -it -v $(pwd):/src zmap/builder
Once these prerequisites are installed, ZMap can be compiled by running:
cmake .
make -j4
and then installed via sudo make install
.
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Enabling development turns on debug symbols, and turns off optimizations. Release builds should be built with
-DENABLE_DEVELOPMENT=OFF
. -
Enabling
log_trace
can have a major performance impact and should not be used except during early development. Release builds should be built with-DENABLE_LOG_TRACE=OFF
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Building packages for some systems like Fedora and RHEL requires a user-definable directory (buildroot) to put files. The way to respect this prefix is to run cmake with
-DRESPECT_INSTALL_PREFIX_CONFIG=ON
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Manpages (and their HTML representations) are generated from the
.ronn
source files in the repository, using the ronn tool. This does not happen automatically as part of the build process; to regenerate the man pages you'll need to runmake manpages
. This target assumes thatronn
is in your PATH. -
Building with some versions of CMake may fail with
unable to find parser.h
. If this happens, try updating CMake. If it still fails, don't clone ZMap into a path that contains the string.com
, and try again. -
ZMap may be installed to an alternative directory, with the
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
option. For example, to install it in$HOME/opt
runcmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/opt . make -j4 make install