You are right, installing Net::SSH2 on ActiveState Perl on Windows is pretty difficult. A document explaining how to do it exists on the distribution but to be honest, I wasn't able to successfully follow it myself.

So, anybody willing to volunteer to improve that would be really welcome in the project!!!

BTW, the keep-alive functionality in libssh2 is still quite buggy, and if you use it you risk breaking the connection.

You are right, installing Net::SSH2 on ActiveState Perl on Windows is pretty difficult. A document explaining how to do it exists on the distribution but to be honest, I wasn't able to successfully follow it myself.

:) Well step 1 is wrong :D for all perls you want http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ its the better compiler

Also, the latest strawberryperl comes bundled with libssh2 and all the prereqs including the compiler, also the module, and the better compiler ...

So if you want to install it into ActivePerl, install strawberryperlportable, so you get all the prerequisites pre compile..... then use the activeperl...perl.exe to run Makefile.PL and compile the thing specifically for activeperl .... copy some .dlls and you're done

Actually that just more of the same busywork, http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Net-SSH2.ppd has already gone through all those steps and provided binaries

I did not know that there are instructions on the distribution itself, i.e. ActiveState Perl?!

I only know about the BUILDING.WIN32 in the github repo (https://github.com/rkitover/net-ssh2), which, when following, end up in a perl 5.8.8 under MinGW ...

Do you have a pointer for me of the ActiveState instructions?

I did not know that there are instructions on the distribution itself, i.e. ActiveState Perl?! I only know about the BUILDING.WIN32 in the github repo (https://github.com/rkitover/net-ssh2), which, when following, end up in a perl 5.8.8 under MinGW ... Do you have a pointer for me of the ActiveState instructions?

Its the same file :) why do you want to compile everything from source? Most of the time that is just a hassle, so you go to looking for binaries from the devs/maintainers so you only have to compile the perl side of things

Easiest path (since strawberryperl folks already compiled the prerequisites)

Go to http://strawberryperl.com/releases.html and get a portablezip edition, unzip it, then

run "portableshell.bat"

download/unzip Net-SSH2... then chdir to that directory in the portableshell window

Then edit Makefile.PL essentially as per https://github.com/rkitover/net-ssh2/blob/master/BUILDING.WIN32 , set basic http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html

 $ENV{LIBRARY_PATH}='strawberry-perl-5.22.0.1-64bit-portable/c/lib';
$ENV{C_INCLUDE_PATH}='strawberry-perl-5.22.0.1-64bit-portable/c/includ
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so gcc... knows how to find libssh2.h/libssh2.a

Then run ....fullpathtoactivestate\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL

The whole trick of it most of the time is simple "%PATH%" manipulation

Post details if you get stuck

links like these talk about it or link to links that talk about it... most of it is "sh configure ... make" or "perl Makefile.PL... make" ... A Guide To Installing Modules...copy/paste

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But wouldn't it be even nicer to have an easy instruction how to build it on Active perl in general? ... So, please: If there is any wisdom out there: Please share it!

If you encounter an error message, share the message, you have been wisdomed :D