in reply to Re: Fun (pain) installing Math::Pari on cygwin.
in thread Fun (pain) installing Math::Pari on cygwin.

You raise some very good points: I completely failed to run make realclean (or indeed, make steps to find out that I'd need to do that!)

Math::Pari that's built for ActivePerl won't work at all with Cygwin's perl.

Indeed: I was going to just switch to using ActivePerl entirely, if it was going to get things working and otherwise function identically; this is for a few small scripts at work, so I'm not too fussed about the environment (yet), though keeping things in Cygwin is preferable for homogeneity's sake.

Using Net::OpenSSH or Net::SSH2 sounds like a much better idea! I had only scratched the surface of the SSH modules, it seems. :)

Thanks!

Anne

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Re^3: Fun (pain) installing Math::Pari on cygwin.
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 05, 2011 at 07:26 UTC
    I was going to just switch to using ActivePerl entirely, if it was going to get things working and otherwise function identically

    Fair enough ... if you do switch to ActivePerl, be aware that although Net::OpenSSH should be fine on Cygwin, it's a no-go on native Windows perls such as ActivePerl. However, Net::SSH2 is fine on ActivePerl.
    If your current list of ppm repos doesn't have a ppm package for Net::SSH2: 
    ppm repo add sisyphusion
ppm install Net-SSH2

    [download]
    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Net::OpenSSH does not work under Cygwin either.

      Windows and cygwin lack some functionality required by the OpenSSH client to implement connection sharing and so that feature is non-functional under Windows.

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        Net::OpenSSH does not work under Cygwin either

        Oh ... thanks for correcting.

        I guess that leaves Windows (including Cygwin) users with just Net::SSH2 or Net::SSH::Perl - along with (for SFTP) the excellent Net::SFTP::Foreign::Backend::Net_SSH2.

        Cheers,
        Rob
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