On Oct 9, 2006, at 4:47 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:

> On 10/6/06, James Housley <jim_at_thehousleys.net> wrote:
>> I have started adding libssh2, for sftp, to a program of mine that
>> already
>> uses libcurl. I know there has been requests for this in the
>> past. I don't
>> know if I will have time to finish, but before I start.... libssh2
>> documentation is very sparse, but is very simple. Basically you use
>> libssh2_sftp_open(), libssh2_sftp_read(), libssh2_sftp_write(),
>> and friends.
>
> It's sparse indeed.. I spent a day or so back in May with libssh2
> version 0.13 and there is stuff that you need that isn't in the docs.
> On the other hand it's not difficult to get working though. I got as
> far as through the connect phase, but unfortunately I never got more
> time to work on it. In case anyone can use it for any purpose I'm
> attaching a diff.
> What's missing is the makefile additions to actually build it - I
> didn't do the proper stuff with the build system, I only hacked the
> makefile manually while testing, so I know it compiles and builds and
> works up to the stage where it stops (that is where you want to start
> to actually transfer data..), but as provided the build will fail
> because of the missing makefile additions. (And that's also why I
> haven't uploaded the patches yet :-)
>

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I started with edits to
configure.ac, and got that mostly working. Makefile is easy for me.
I will look at your patches.

Jim

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