Compiling Mosh (http://mosh.mit.edu/) under Cygwin

mosh-cygwin

1. Download Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com

2. Run setup.exe and install the following packages in addition to the default ones:
   - make
   - boost
   - libncurses-devel
   - pkg-config
   - perl

3. Download and compile Protocol Buffers: http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
   $ tar xvvf protobuf-2.4.1.tar.gz
   $ cd protobuf-2.4.1
   $ ./configure
   $ make
   $ make install

4. Download and compile Mosh: http://mosh.mit.edu/
   $ 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

5. Install the IO::Pty Perl module:
   $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
   cpan> install IO::Pty

6. Rock’n’roll.