Issue building PuTTY on Mac.

[abcbarryn]

Since the issue/bug reporting page is not working (refer to my other post) I am posting this here. Currently when you run "brew install putty" you get several putty command line utilities but no actual PuTTY or Pterm. I have actually gotten this to WORK though by installing gtk-mac-bundler and editting the putty config/make scripts. I would like to suggest that a formulae be added for gtk-mac-bundler and the PuTTY formulae be updated to build the complete software package including the GUI client.

[carlocab]

If gtk-mac-bundler satisfies the requirements in https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae then we'd be happy to review a pull request that adds the formula to Homebrew/core.

As for the GUI, we usually avoid building those on purpose: https://docs.brew.sh/Acceptable-Formulae#stuff-that-builds-a-gui-by-default-but-doesnt-have-to That said, my impression is that PuTTY is more widely known for its GUI, so a PR that adds the GUI build to the formula might have a chance of being accepted. If there is an official pre-built binary for PuTTY we might want to make that a cask instead though.

[abcbarryn]

Well, I don't know about an "official" Mac binary, but I do have a 64 bit intel one that works and should run as a stand alone app or in conjunction with the current brew formulae. How do I submit it? The gtk-mac-bundler did get the PuTTY GUI to build after I did some edits, pulled out some hair, did a few more edits, wrote a custom loader script, and sacrificed a rubber chicken. :) PuTTY is certainly mainly useful for it's GUI.

[abcbarryn]

Here's a link to my dmg image I created.

Mac PuTTY DMG

[syoung1999]

Thanks for providing the Putty DMG file, it worked perfectly. I too was at the same point as you, I did the "brew install putty" and there was no putty command to be found. Thanks again.