sftp Client for Windows XP

[Darren Tucker]

Saju Paul wrote:
> 1. Is it possible to even write a custom 'sftp' client for our application
> on the MS Windows platform ?  (my system uses Windows XP on a standard Intel
> based processor) on which I'll need to be able to build the OpenSSH
> libraries (libssh.a, libopenbsd-compat.a and any others) at a minimum.

It's possible to make sftp into a native Windows program but it's likely 
to be an awful lot of work.  sftp needs ssh, and ssh makes a lot of 
assumptions that's running on a Unix-like platform and libssh.a is not 
intended for use by applications.

> 2. Does Windows support OpenSSH or vice versa ?

Yes, via Cygwin (out-of-the-box) or Services For Unix (third-party patches).

> 3. If OpenSSH cannot be used are they any commercial versions of SSH that I
> might be able to use ?

Try PuTTY or Peter Gutmann's cryptlib.

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