How to install socat (network utility) in Windows

What is socat?
socat is a computer networking utility for reading from and writing to network connections using TCP or UDP.
Developed by Gerhard Rieger - http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat


How to install in Windows

1. Download and install Cygwin from https://www.cygwin.com

2. Install additional Cygwin packages:
- gcc-g++
- gcc-core
- cygwin32-gcc-g++
- cygwin32-gcc-core
- make

3. Download socat current version http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-1.7.3.2.tar.gz

4. Open Cygwin prompt and chage to directory where downloaded socat

tar zxvf socat-1.7.3.2.tar.gz
cd socat-1.7.3.2
./configure
make
make install

Done!

Nice things to do with socat
https://blog.chmd.fr/ssh-over-ssl-episode-2-replacing-proxytunnel-with-socat.html
http://www.bitkistl.com/2016/03/socat-by-example.html

;-)