SSH for windows

[BernieC]

I need an SSH package for windows and I seem to be trapped. Net::OpenSSH and Net::SSH both require an installed ssh client, which I don't have. Net::SSH::Perl looks perfect. But:

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/01-compile.t   (Wstat: 256 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  1
  Non-zero exit status: 1
t/04-config.t    (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 25 tests but ran 0.
t/05-cipher.t    (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/06-auth.t      (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/06-circular.t  (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/07-ed25519.t   (Wstat: 512 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  1
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 5 tests but ran 1.
Files=13, Tests=21,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr +  0.03 sys =  0.06 C
+PU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 6/13 test programs. 2/21 subtests failed.
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'
  SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.tar.gz
  C:\Perl64\site\bin\dmake.exe test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, t
+ry:
  reports SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.tar.gz
Failed during this command:
 SCHWIGON/Net-SSH-Perl-2.14.tar.gz            : make_test NO

I tried a notest install, but it seems that that didn't work either. Is there a windows win7 SSH client for perl or is there some workaround for the installation problems with Net::SSH::Perl? Thanks! /b\

[Corion]

Have you looked at Net::SSH2?

Strawberry Perl includes it, so you likely don't even have to install it on Windows.

[BernieC]

Activestate doesn't know about it and there's no libssh2 or ssh2.dll or whateverit might be called on windows on my win7 system. I tried installing Net::SSH2 and, not surprisingly, got

Looking for libraries...
Unable to find a working version of library ssh2 in the following dire
+ctories:

I've downloaded libssh2 to my nearby Unix system and it looks like it can be built for Windows but I haven't a clue how to do that. I'm guessing I have "make" machinery and a C compiler because CPAN uses that to build stuff. Off on another research project to see how to build libssh2. {a lot of packages take pity on us poor Windows folk and provide already compiled versions for windows. Alas, not libssh2.}

[marto]

By default ActiveState doesn't come with a C compiler, or build tools. Many CPAN modules contain no C code, pure perl so you may never had needed this so far. If you're going to be using Perl on windows you can make your life a lot easier by switching to Strawbery Perl, since it ships with a sane development environment, lots of additional modules and libraries as standard. libssh2 install doc. You can see how builds/packages everything.

[Corion]

ActiveState tries to provide a pre-built Net::SSH2, but that automated build fails because there is no prebuilt libssh2 available. If all else fails, maybe you can ask the maintainers of Strawberry Perl how they build their Net::SSH2 and libssh2.

I've also used a pipe to plink.exe to fetch output from a remote machine, but that means you'll be fighting quoting across shell commands, which rarely is fun.

[syphilis]

The following should work unless you're running perl-5.28.0:

ppm install http://www.sisyphusion.tk/ppm/Net-SSH2.ppd

Cheers,
Rob