Project Goal
Project Goal
Provide a native macOS build of PuTTY and its companion tools while maintaining compatibility with modern macOS systems and Apple Silicon processors.
Challenges
Several issues needed to be addressed:
- adapting the build system for macOS
- replacing Windows specific components
- ensuring compatibility with Apple Silicon
- packaging the tools into a proper macOS application bundle
Solution
The project involved:
- updating build scripts
- adapting platform specific code
- testing on modern macOS versions
- packaging the tools using macOS application bundle conventions
Result
The result is a fully functional macOS port of the PuTTY toolset including:
- PuTTY
- PSCP
- PSFTP
- PuTTYgen
- Plink
- Pageant
This allows developers familiar with the Windows version of PuTTY to transition easily to macOS.