in reply to Re^2: Fun (pain) installing Math::Pari on cygwin.
in thread Fun (pain) installing Math::Pari on cygwin.

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

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Cheers,
Rob

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Re^4: Fun (pain) installing Math::Pari on cygwin.
by salva (Canon) on Oct 05, 2011 at 07:43 UTC
    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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        Thanks to all; I'll see if I can avoid ActivePerl entirely with Net::SSH2 when I'm at work again tomorrow, and failing that, more Net::SSH::Perl wrangling (i.e. clean before rebuild with new opts! *headdesk*).

        Thanks again!

        Anne

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        There is also Net::SSH::Expect, easy to install under Cygwin and not completely reliable.
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