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Re: SFTP problems

From: Daniel Karunairatnam <daniel.karunairatnam_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:32:21 +1100

On 22/10/2014 5:50 AM, "Ray Satiro" <raysatiro_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/21/2014 8:55 AM, Guenter wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>> On 21.10.2014 13:35, Daniel Karunairatnam wrote:
>>>
>>> is it the 3.34MB file under win32-generic on this page?
>>> http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
>>> are you running windows 8?
>>>
>>> and if it is that file. how do I compile the example code? there is no
>>> libcurl.lib file and visual studio studio throws up a link error in
>>> response.
>>
>> I think what Ray mainly wanted to say is that sftp basically works on
Windows (and also on Windows 8).
>> But these binaries are build with the MinGW compiler, and even if it
might be possible to use the *.a libs (after converting to .lib) from MSVC
it is not recommended; in general it is also not recommended to use MSVC
pre-build binaries with MSVC unless you know exactly with which MSVC
version + settings they were build.
>> That means for you that you should build libcurl + any needed dependency
libs with *your* MSVC version from scratch, and then build your example and
link against your own created libs.
>> For your use case you would have to build at least:
>> OpenSSL
>> libssh2 (linked against your OpenSSL version)
>> libcurl (linked against your libssh2 version)
>
>
> Yes, and I tried under Windows 8 x64 using pageant and it worked fine to
do a directory listing. The directions I followed to install freeSSHd can
be found at [1]. I installed it in a Windows 7 x64 VM.
>
> How did you build libssh2 Daniel? There is a document on the curl website
for building OpenSSL, libssh2 and libcurl that can be found at [2]. I have
a build process that is more complicated if that doesn't work. Please heed
to Gün's advice and don't make .lib files from the .a files.
>
> [1]:
https://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/v1r1m0/topic/com.ibm.iea.wpi_v6/wa/6.2/FTP/WBPMv62_IEA_AdapterInstallConfigureSSHServerLab.pdf?dmuid=20090217132204643973
> [2]:
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/Using-libcurl-with-SSH-support-in-Visual-Studio-2010.pdf

Hi, yeah i compiled my .lib file originally in msvc 10+.
But that still produced a problem.
The stack error appears in the openssl.c file.

I'll try the instructions at the link you sent too tonight thanks.

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