I am running PERL 5.26.2 on CygWIN 2.9.0.0 on Windows 10. I need to execute an sftp from Perl. The base installation of perl doesn't seem to include sftp, so I downloaded and tried to install Net::SFTP. This seems to require Net::SSH2, which I also downloaded and tried to install. That seems to require crypt.h. In attempt to get crypt.h into place, I downloaded and tried to install gcrypt-0.3. Surprisingly, that too requires (and does not include) crypt.h. So I downloaded and tried to install Crypt-GCrypt-1.26. That seems to require the library 'gcrypt'. So I downloaded and tried to install libgcrypt-1.8.3. That requires libgptg-error-1.9, which I downloaded and tried to install. That will not compile because the compiler does not like a long series of lines all of the form: { , "GPG_ERR_SOMETHING"}

It doesn't seem like this should be so hard. Does anyone have any advice for me?

In reply to SFTP for Perl on CygWin by pcrowley203

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