NOTE: You don't need to compile Mosh on Cygwin yourself anymore; just install the package with Cygwin's setup.exe
.
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Download Cygwin.
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Run
setup.exe
and install the following packages in addition to the default ones:- make
- boost
- libncurses-devel
- pkg-config
- perl
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Download and compile Protocol Buffers (make sure there are no spaces in the working directory when compiling Protocol Buffers,
make
will fail if there are):$ tar zxvf protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz $ cd protobuf-2.4.1 $ ./configure $ make $ make install
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Download and compile Mosh:
$ tar zxvf mosh-1.1.3.tar.gz $ cd mosh-1.1.3 $ ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ncurses" PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ $ make $ make install
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Install the
IO::Pty
Perl module:$ perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> install IO::Pty
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Rock’n’roll.
My build failed:
./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for protoc... /usr/local/bin/protoc
checking for library containing utempter_remove_added_record... no
configure: WARNING: Unable to find libutempter; utmp entries will not be made.
checking for library containing compress... -lz
checking for boostlib >= 1.20.0... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking arpa/inet.h usability... yes
checking arpa/inet.h presence... yes
checking for arpa/inet.h... yes
checking curses.h usability... no
checking curses.h presence... no
checking for curses.h... no
configure: error: Missing required header file.