OpenSSH & MinGW?

[Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com]

I'm interested in building just the OpenSSH clients with MinGW.

I figure that the OpenSSL libraries and just the ssh client should be relatively easy to build as they wouldn't require fork()/exec() and the like (well, ssh_askpass() uses fork()/exec(), but that's minor).

The other clients, scp and sftp, will require #ifdef hacks so that they use the Windows spawn()/CreateProcess() APIs instead of fork()/exec() to run the ssh program.

Any other glaring gotchas? Has anyone done this?

Hmmm, I'd need the MIT krb5 stuff to build under MinGW as well...

Nico
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