Thursday, July 7, 2011

Trouble getting Net::SFTP installed on Windows and Mac

So, in the spirit of proving that Perl is not a *nix programming language, I have been banging my head against the wall for days trying to get Net::SFTP installed on a variety of non-*nix platforms: Windows 7 + Strawberry Perl, Windows 7 + Cygwin, Mac OS 10.6. I run into countless dependency problems, some of which I was able to decipher and move through.

The latest is when I attempted to install Net::SFTP using perlbrew on my iMac at work. Math::GMP fails with "WARNING! No GMP libraries were detected!". Will look into that one and report back.