Python: Why flawfinder module is not working in cmd windows?

Question

Python flawfinder module is working in bash but not working in Windows command commandline. Here are the steps I followed:

1. Python installation path - C/Users/xyz/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37-32/python

   pip install flawfinder

2. When I type flawfinder in commandline, it gives below error:

   flawfinder is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 1

For Windows the recommended way is to install Cygwin and install flawfinder on top of it. This is the usual way. From Docs,

Flawfinder works on Unix-like systems (it’s been tested on GNU/Linux), and on Windows by using Cygwin.

But it can also be made to work with python by running it as a script.

• Download the flawfinder.py script from here

• Run it with python as usual in your cmd prompt like,

  python flawfinder [options] [source_code_file]+

Answer 2

Since version 2.0.16 released 2021-05-31 flawfinder also works on windows as expected.