cfengine 3.4 - cygwin build instructions

Question

I would like to build cfengine 3.4 on cygwin.

It appears that this should be possible - here is patch to enable the build: link.

Are there any step by step build instructions for compiling cfengine 3.4 on cygwin?

Answer 1

Install cygwin (I setup 1.7.17) with:

• make
• gcc
• flex
• bison
• openssl-devel
• libpcre-devel

Download qdbm from here, then:

tar xvzf qdbm-1.8.78.tar.gz
cd qdbm-1.8.78
./configure
make
install
cp /usr/local/lib/libqdbm.* /usr/lib

Download cfengine from here, then:

tar xvzf cfengine-3.4.3.tar.gz
cd cfengine-3.4.3
./configure --with-qdbm
make
make install

Now I just need to figure out how to use cfengine!