Re: Visual C++ 2010 Express edition cannot open and convert libssh2 win32 project file

On 4 September 2012 04:49, Noah <n0ahz0rk_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not sure if others have this problem, but I have tried to open the
> C:\libssh2-1.4.2\win32\libssh2.dsp file (as per the instruction in Andrei
> Jakab's Using libcurl with SSH support in Visual Studio 2010 [PDF] -
> referring to the link on http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/ ) with my Visual C++
> 2010 Express edition, and I do get the prompt that advises the project will
> have to be converted, but after that I get no error messages, and no project
> is open in the IDE.

I can't help you with the conversion but my advice would be to ignore
the included project files entirely as libssh2 is so easy to build on
Windows. Here's the guide I sent round the list a little while back:

Using Visual Studio:
- Shove all the .c files in libssh2/src into an empty Win32 C++ (DLL
or Static Library) project except libgcrypt.c/openssl.c of which you
only pick the one appropriate to your crypto library.
- Add your OpenSSL or libgcrypt include directory to the project include path
- Add libssh2/include to the project include path
- Add libssh2/win32 to the project include path
- Add the appropriate crypto libraries to the project Additonal Libraries list
- Build
- Job done

Using MinGW:
I'm not confident enough to list the exact steps for this but its
basically a matter of adding the same .c files to a Makefile source
list and instructing gcc to make a DLL or static library from them.
Use Google to find the flags you need to add for those two
alternatives.

Alex

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