I've been trying to install Net::SSH2 for 2 days without success.

I'm using Win XP and Perl 5.8(Strawberry). I tried 5.10 but then I read somewhere on this site that there might be a compatibility issue w/Net::SSH2 & 5.10 so I uninstalled 5.10 and installed 5.8.

This was the error when using CPAN, CPANP or a manual ‘perl make.pl’: 

“The libssh2 library is required by this module.  If you don't have it
+, you can download it from http://www.libssh2.org; you may also need 
+OpenSSL, which can be obtained from http://www.openssl.org.

Debian:   sudo aptitude install libssh2-1-dev
OpenSUSE: sudo zypper in libssh2-1 libssh2-devel

Can't link/include ‘libssh2.h’, 'ssh2'

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But then I copied \libssh2-0.12\include\libssh2.h to C:\strawberry\c\include and now I get the same error except the last line is:

Can't link/include 'ssh2'

I've read this post: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=581715, but the command in the post doesn’t work on WinXP. Here's an excerpt from the 'INSTALL' file in the libssh2-0.12 folder: 

!
 * Run: ./configure (passing additional options as desired)

    In addition the the standard set of ./configure options (e.g. --pr
+efix)
!
    * --with-openssl=[DIR]
!
        ./configure will attempt to locate OpenSSL in a number of defa
+ult locations:
            /usr/local/ssl /usr/local /usr /usr/local/openssl
!

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The “INSTALL” file included with libssh2 doesn’t apply to WinXP . . .

Also, I'm not familiar with any of the file extensions in the libssh2-0.12\win32 folder: ".mk, .dsp, .dsw, & .h". Are these extensions for WinXP?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

In reply to Can't install Net::SSH2 on win32 (libssh2, openssl) by clutch2k3

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