[mosh-devel] Mosh and C++ wrapper version

[Keith Winstein]

Dmitry,

We'd be glad to have you maintain a distribution of Mosh for Windows, via 
Cygwin or otherwise. Please just publish your package however is best for 
Cygwin users (can it be somehow integrated into Cygwin...?), and we will 
have other Windows users test it out. If all is good we will link to your 
package on http://mosh.mit.edu and point users there.

Re: static Linux binary, unfortunately it is not that simple. Right now 
mosh-server still depends on the C-language locale facility to do its 
charset work, and these files are loaded dynamically at runtime and are 
found at varying locations on different systems (based on LOCPATH, etc.). 
So a single static Linux binary will not work on too many different Linux 
distributions without tweaks. (We also use getpwuid() which has a similar 
problem.)

I don't think there is any theoretical obstacle to integrating mosh-client 
with PuTTY (somebody else has just integrated mosh-client with Android 
Connectbot pretty successfully). But somebody who knows about Windows 
would need to do this work.

Best regards,
Keith

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Dmitry Koterov wrote:

> So what do you think?
> (BTW I suppose there are no realistic possibilities to build a non-cygwin
> version of mosh under Windows - it's too complex based on existed code and
> actibe pty usages. But it is mostly not needed - cygwin version would be
> fine and portable enough.)
> 
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Dmitry Koterov <dmitry.koterov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>       Possibly I could be such maintainer - I have a couple of
>       projects which are distributed such way
>       (http://en.dklab.ru/lib/dklab_realsync/, http://denwer.ru). I am
>       planning at least to try this (of course if you agree).
> Another thing I'd like to do is to make linux mosh-server binary to be
> built statically (including glibc) - so it could be copied to any
> version of linux with no care of dependencies. It will make mosh
> distribution and creation of packages for various linuxes much easier
> - I've seen it in my "Dklab_realplexor" project before.
> 
> 
> On Saturday, June 23, 2012, Keith Winstein wrote:
>       Hi Dmitry,
>
>       Yes, we plan to merge it by mosh 1.3 (the next major
>       release). Glad to
>       hear it solves the Cygwin problems -- but what we really
>       need in this
>       department is somebody who is willing to step up and be
>       the Cygwin (or
>       Windows) maintainer and distribute a package for those
>       platforms in
>       whatever format is most convenient for users. Thanks for
>       all your help
>       so far!
>
>       Best regards,
>       Keith
>
>       On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Dmitry Koterov
>       <dmitry.koterov at gmail.com> wrote:
>       > Hello.
>       >
>       > Thanks for mosh again.
>       >
>       > Keith, could you please say whether you plan to
>       merge piannucci's patch
>       > which replaces Perl wrapper script by a native one?
>       > https://github.com/keithw/mosh/pull/96
>       >
>       > This method completely solves problems in Cygwin and
>       e.g. allows to build a
>       > portable Windows distribution for mosh client (which
>       suppose to be very
>       > demanded).
> 
> 
> 
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