Re^2: SFTP for Perl on CygWin

while I second the Strawberry Perl recommendation, cygwin is a reasonably-"sane" development environment (though I haven't actively used it in years), and you should probably just have to install the appropriate development library. A quick search for "cygwin crypt.h" found this cygwin mailing list post, where it says you need to install the libcrypt-devel development library to get the headers/etc, and libcrypt0 for the DLL itself. A package search on cygwin does show those two packages exist.

So, try to use cygwin's package manager for the libcrypt-devel and libcrypt0, and then see whether you can install the perl modules.

I thought there might even be a package for properly installing Net::SSH2 and/or Net::SFTP ... but, not that I could find.

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Re^3: SFTP for Perl on CygWin by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 20, 2018 at 10:38 UTC
I suggested Strawberry because it already includes all sorts of useful libraries and perl modules, including Net::SSH2. This made working on Windows so much easier for me, and given how easy it is to use I don't see any advantage of using perl via Cygwin. Perhaps someone has a special use case. Net::SFTP is a pure perl implementation.	[reply]
Re^3: SFTP for Perl on CygWin by Anonymous Monk on Jul 20, 2018 at 16:25 UTC
Thanks. So I installed the source for libcrypt-devel using the CygWin installer. I then found I had to further install Math::Int64, Net::SSH::perl, and Crypt::PRNG. Once all that was done, I could install Net::SSH2 and then Net::SFTP. Everything seemed to make, make test, and make install successfully with all of that. I run my script, and it still says "Can't locate Net/SFTP.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Net::SFTP module)" This seems strange to me, given that it seems successfully installed Net::SFTP. Any ideas? Thanks again.	[reply]