Install Plink In Cygwin

Question

[Zhshqzyc]

Can I install PLINK in cygwin? Need steps if so.

Thanks.

[Istvan Albert]

You need to follow the instructions that David linked to, then if something does not work and you have specific questions you can ask those.

Answer 1

[David Quigley]

Download the source code. Unzip it. Follow the instructions in README.TXT:

COMPILATION: You will need a standard C/C++ compiler such as GNU gcc (version 3). This is likely available on all Linux/Unix platforms. For MS-DOS, DJGPP or MinGW are appropriate choices. To help compiling, see documentation (basically, just be sure to select the correct Makefile and type make -f Makefile.*)

That ought to work.

[Zhshqzyc]

Need more advice. I have Visual Studio 2010, can I use it to compile it? I want to use plink in cygwin rather than dos/windows. What is the proper path(/usr/local/bin/)??? Because I downloaded it to c drive.

[Michael Schubert]

gcc is included in Cygwin (or at least installable through the menu) - you just need to follow the instructions

[Zhshqzyc]

Just downloaded a bunch of code and compiled them. Errors: zstream something... My laptop is windows 7 64 bit. There are two versions of plink: Linux (x86_64) and Linux (i686). Which one should I select? By the way, dos version plink works greatly so far.

[Michael Schubert]

Please update your question with what exactly you did. Otherwise noone will be able to help you (x86_64 is 64 bit but the source does not have an archtitecture).

Answer 2

[j.f.quinn]

I just figured out how to do this myself: these are the snags a ran into with compiling and how I solved them. I am on windows 7 64bit machine with the latest cygwin standard installation.

1. you need to edit the makefile so the options are like this:

   Set this variable to either UNIX, MAC or WIN

   SYS = UNIX

   Leave blank after "=" to disable; put "= 1" to enable

   WITHRPLUGINS = WITHWEBCHECK = FORCE32BIT = 1 WITHZLIB = WITHLAPACK = FORCE_DYNAMIC =

2. compiler for me threw an error because the source code uses a function call to "fopen64" in c++, which wasn't recognized by the compiler (gcc 4.3.4) so just did a find replace like so:

   sed -i *.cpp s/fopen64/fopen/g

3. compiler then threw another error "ld: cannot find -lgcc_s", which i guess is a known bug which you can read about here: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-06/msg00332.html i fixed this by adding the flag -static-libgcc in the section of the makefile where you can add additional flags to the compiler

   Any other compiler flags here ( -Wall, -g, etc)

   CXXFLAGS = -static-libgcc

then it compiled just fine!

hope this helps someone..