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I have strawberry perl working on my windows 7 laptop. I am trying to remote into some Brocade switches that I manage. I tried to load the Net-SSH-W32Perl module it fail because it has a requirment for Math-Pari module to be installed. I cannot get Math-Pari to install: it gives me the following error (did not find GP/PARI build directory around. Do you want to me to fetch GP/PARI automatically. The process fail for yes and no. Could someone please help me to get SSH working on my workstation. Thanks

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Re: Windows SSH Help
by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Jul 10, 2014 at 18:07 UTC

    I've just tried this myself, though not using Strawberry on a Windows machine. There is indeed a dependency on Math::Pari in there somewhere, and that module in turn requires PARI/GP.

    You may have better luck downloading and installing PARI binaries for Windows, and then trying to install Net::SSH::W32Perl again.

    EDIT: I just tried again using Strawberry Perl, but it turns out that since I'm using the 64-bit version, the option to try and automatically build PARI doesn't exist: 

      CPAN.pm: Building I/IL/ILYAZ/modules/Math-Pari-2.010808.zip

Did not find GP/PARI build directory around.

Apparently, you are running a 64-bit Perl built with MicroSoft's compi
+lers.
GP/PARI (at least the versions I know how to work with, 2.1.* and 2.3.
+*)
cannot be built in this environment.  I won't auto-download GP/PARI.

If you believe that this message is printed erroneously, please report
(see files README and INSTALL), and put force_download on the command 
+line:
   perl Makefile.PL force_download

One can rerun Makefile.PL after fetching GP/PARI archive (e.g., pari-2
+.1.7.tgz,
or pari-2.3.4.tar.gz) manually to the current directory, or a (grand)p
+arent
directory of the current directory.

  [Keep in mind that the numbers "inside version" of Math::Pari module
   correspond to the last versions of GP/PARI it was tested with (addi
+tionally,
   2.0108* works best with the last 2.1.* version, 2.1.7).

   As an alternative to having archive in CWD or its (grand)parent, sp
+ecify
       pari_tgz=PATH_TO_TAR_GZ
   option to Makefile.PL.

   There is no need to extract the archive, or build GP/PARI; but if y
+ou
   have it extracted [and patched, if needed], you may specify
       paridir=PATH_TO_DIST_DIR
   option to Makefile.PL instead of `pari_tgz'.  However, in this case
   the files WON'T be auto-patched.

   As a last-resort solution, there is also a possibility to use an al
+ready
   compiled PARI library.  See the documentation in README and INSTALL
+ files.]

Could not find GP/PARI build directory, please run Makefile.PL
with paridir=/directory option.

    [download]

    So I really can't help you, sorry. Note those last lines, though: a precompiled PARI libray may work, so check the README and INSTALL files for more information.

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      Thank you
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Re: Windows SSH Help
by dasgar (Priest) on Jul 10, 2014 at 18:45 UTC

    What buiild of Strawberry Perl are you using? Also, are you using the 32-bit or the 64-bit version?

    I just took a quick look at the release notes for the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of their latest build. The 32-bit version comes with Math::Pari already installed. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions come with Net::SSH2 installed. Can you use Net::SSH2 instead of Net::SSH:W32Perl? If so, you probably already have it installed since you're using Strawberry Perl.

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      Thank you I will give it a try.
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