mosh-cygwin.md

1. Download Cygwin.

2. Run setup.exe and install the following packages in addition to the default ones:

   • make
   • boost
   • libncurses-devel
   • pkg-config
   • perl
   • automake
   • autoconf
   • gcc
   • libtool
   • gcc-g++
   • zlib-devel
   • openssl-devel

3. 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):

    $ wget https://github.com/google/protobuf/archive/master.zip
    $ unzip master.zip
    $ cd protobuf-master
    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ ./configure
    $ make
    $ make install
   

4. Download and compile Mosh:

    $ git clone https://github.com/keithw/mosh.git
    $ cd mosh
    $ ./autogen.sh
    $ ./configure CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/ncurses" PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
    $ #comment version.h block in Makefile or ignore version.h errors
    $ make
    $ make install
   

5. Install the IO::Pty Perl module:

    $ perl -MCPAN -e shell
    cpan> install IO::Pty
   

6. Rock’n’roll.