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Compiling ssh using intel compiler

Do you think it's possible to compile ssh using the Intel compiler? I don't really know where to start and there's not much info on google, so I thought I'd ask the community.

I really want to take advantage of the compression performance improvements. My idea is to set up an unencrypted ssh tunnel (but with maximum compression) as follows:

ssh -N -g -f -C -o CompressionLevel=9 -o Cipher=none [email protected] -L 6999:172.16.1.218:3129

Any advice greatly appreciated,

Solution

  • Build instructions for OpenSSH can be found here: http://unixwiz.net/techtips/openssh.html.

    When you do the ./configure steps you'll want to do something like ./configure CC=icc CXX=icpc in order to use the ICC compiler rather than gcc.

    If you've done it right then when you subsequently do a make you should see during the build that the compile lines will start with icc ... or icpc ... rather than gcc ... or g++ ....