clutch2k3 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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!!

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Re: Can't install Net::SSH2 on win32 (libssh2, openssl)
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Dec 26, 2009 at 22:27 UTC
    I think the 5.10 issues are now resolved.
    If ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Net-SSH2.ppd will work for you, that would be the easiest way to get it. It's Net-SSH2-0.28 built against a static libssh2-1.2.1, so there's nothing else needed.

    See how you go with that. (A slightly different ppm command will be needed if you switch back to 5.10.)

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Dude!!!!

      YOU ROCK!

      I'm on my other pc that still has 5.10 so I figured out the differences in the URLs (I'm posting it for other noobs),

      URL for 5.8:

      http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/

      URL for 5.10:

      http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx

      and BAM, the module installed in a minute:

      C:\libssh2-0.12\win32>ppm install http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages
+/10xx/Net-SSH2.ppd
Downloading Net-SSH2-0.28...done
Unpacking Net-SSH2-0.28...done
Generating HTML for Net-SSH2-0.28...done
Updating files in site area...done
  17 files installed

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      Just as to not confuse anybody, I just happened to be in the "C:\libssh2-0.12\win32>" directory. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the install command you posted would have worked from any directory.

      Thanks a million!

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Try Cygwin ... Re: Can't install Net::SSH2 on win32 (libssh2, openssl)
by clp (Friar) on Dec 27, 2009 at 00:22 UTC
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      I'm gonna try cygwin. Did you know they just came out with a new release?

      Would you recommend sticking with 1.5 or going for 1.7?

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        Play with the Cygwin install tool to understand how it works (the UI confused me initially). I would start with the older release, and read the release notes for it and for the newer software, to have some idea of what bugs were found & fixed or not (especially any compatibility issues with the Windows o/s you are using).

        After you have a working system, and have read some docs & used it a while and made some mistakes, you'll be in a better position to know if you want to, or must, upgrade to a newer release. Most of the pieces I have used have been solid and I have rarely found it necessary to upgrade. Upgrading can be a straightforward process.

        Having real CPAN on a Windows o/s is a great benefit for me, but I am not writing Perl code for deployment on various Win systems. I can install Cygwin on the machines I use. Your environment and requirements might be different.

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