title: Perform a SSH connection with Windows API in C/C++?
body: <p>I currently have two applications, one is on Windows and one is on Linux.
  They need to work together (There's socket interaction between them and so on).</p>
  
  <p>I need to somehow make only one application, but I still need things to operate on the linux side.</p>
  
  <p>What I'm looking for is some API available in <strong>Windows</strong> to open a SSH connection (I think that a telnet connection will also do, not sure though), and dispatch a few commands through it to my Linux PC (To start sending some stuff).</p>
  
  <p>I'm bound to using Windows API on VS2005 in C/C++.
  I used <strong>plink</strong> for a bit, and it's very nice and useful, but I can't have a third-party installation to make it work.</p>
  
  <p>I really appreciate your help.</p>