Cygwin - How to install ansible?

Question

How to get / install ansible using Cygwin?

I tried the following steps but it's didn't work during bullet 5 (while running "python setup.py install"). Steps taken from: Taken from https://servercheck.in/blog/running-ansible-within-windows

1) Download and install Cygwin, with at least the following packages selected (you can select the packages during the install process):

libyaml
libyaml-devel
curl
python (2.7.x)
python-crypto
python-openssl
python-paramiko
python-setuptools
git (2.1.x)
vim
openssh
openssl
openssl-devel

2) Download and install PyYAML and Jinja2, as they're not available via Cygwin's installer:

1. Open Cygwin
2. Download PyYAML:
    curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/P/PyYAML/PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz
3. Download Jinja2:
    curl -O https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/J/Jinja2/Jinja2-2.6.tar.gz
4. Untar both downloads:
    tar -xvf PyYAML-3.10.tar.gz && tar -xvf Jinja2-2.6.tar.gz
5. Change directory into each of the expanded folders and run python "python setup.py install" to install each package.
6. Clone ansible from its repository on GitHub:
    git clone https://github.com/ansible/ansible /opt/ansible
    This was tested with Ansible version v1.6.6, change directory into /opt/ansible and checkout the correct tag: git checkout v1.6.6.
7. Add the following lines into your Cygwin .bash_profile:
    # Ansible settings
    ANSIBLE=/opt/ansible
    export PATH=$PATH:$ANSIBLE/bin
    export PYTHONPATH=$ANSIBLE/lib
    export ANSIBLE_LIBRARY=$ANSIBLE/library

8. At this point, you should be able to run ansible commands via Cygwin (once you restart, or enter source ~/.bash_profile to pick up the settings you just added). 
    Try ansible --version to display Ansible's version.

9. Passwordless ssh will need to be set up between your Windows machine and the deployment host(s)
    To enable passwordless ssh on Centos -  ssh-copy-id root@node
    To enable passwordless ssh on SuSE I followed the steps in this blog:
    http://www.firedaemon.com/blog/passwordless-root-ssh-public-key-authentication-on-centos-6
    install sshpass v1.05 on your Windows machine<br>

The error that I got during during bullet 5 is:

$ python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
creating build
creating build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7
creating build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/composer.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/constructor.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/cyaml.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/dumper.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/emitter.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/error.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/events.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/loader.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/nodes.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/parser.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/reader.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/representer.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/resolver.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/scanner.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/serializer.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/tokens.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
copying lib/yaml/__init__.py -> build/lib.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/yaml
running build_ext
creating build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7
checking if libyaml is compilable
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/src/ports/python/python-2.7.10-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/python-2.7.10-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/src/ports/python/python-2.7.10-1.x86_64/src/Python-2.7.10=/usr/src/debug/python-2.7.10-1 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/cygdrive/c/cygwin/include/python2.7 -c build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/check_libyaml.c -o build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/check_libyaml.o
checking if libyaml is linkable
gcc build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/check_libyaml.o -L/cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/python2.7/config -L/usr/lib -lyaml -o build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/check_libyaml.exe
skipping 'ext/_yaml.c' Cython extension (up-to-date)
building '_yaml' extension
creating build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/ext
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wimplicit-function-declaration -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/src/ports/python/python-2.7.10-1.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/python-2.7.10-1 -fdebug-prefix-map=/usr/src/ports/python/python-2.7.10-1.x86_64/src/Python-2.7.10=/usr/src/debug/python-2.7.10-1 -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/cygdrive/c/cygwin/include/python2.7 -c ext/_yaml.c -o build/temp.cygwin-2.2.1-x86_64-2.7/ext/_yaml.o
ext/_yaml.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
 #include "Python.h"
                    ^
compilation terminated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

.

$ ansible --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ansible/bin/ansible", line 40, in <module>
    from ansible.utils.display import Display
  File "/opt/ansible/lib/ansible/utils/display.py", line 35, in <module>
    from ansible import constants as C
  File "/opt/ansible/lib/ansible/constants.py", line 30, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.splitter import unquote
  File "/opt/ansible/lib/ansible/parsing/__init__.py", line 32, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.vault import VaultLib
  File "/opt/ansible/lib/ansible/parsing/vault/__init__.py", line 82, in <module>
    from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.hashes import SHA256 as c_SHA256
  File "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/hashes.py", line 15, in <module>
    from cryptography.hazmat.backends.interfaces import HashBackend
  File "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/backends/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    import pkg_resources
  File "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 84, in <module>
    packaging = pkg_resources._vendor.packaging
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_vendor'

Answer 1

Assuming Cygwin is installed:

• Open up a Cygwin Terminal
• alias cyg-get="/path/to/cygwin/setup/package/setup-x86_64.exe -q -P"
• cyg-get cygwin32-gcc-g++,gcc-core,gcc-g++,git,libffi-devel,nano,openssl,openssl-devel,python-crypto,python3,python3-devel,python3-openssl,python3-pip,python3-setuptools,python3-devel,tree,wget,zip,make
• The lack of spaces and the presence of commas here is important!
• Upgrade pip via pip3 install --upgrade pip
• pip install ansible

Notes:

The cyg-get alias allows you to install all packages via the command line instead of searching in the Cygwin UI.

The ansible installation includes a step where "Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pynacl" is executed - this takes at least half an hour but does eventually complete.

Answer 2

Steps for Ansible 2.7.6 and Python3 and Cygwin 2.11.2(0.329/5/3)

1. Having Cygwin installed
2. Install python3

c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P python3
$ python3 --version

3. Install pip

$ curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
$ python3 get-pip.py
$ pip --version

4. Install dev tools (for Ansible)

c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P make
c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P gcc-g++
c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P python3-devel
c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P libffi-devel
c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P openssl-devel
c:\cygwin64-setup>setup-x86_64.exe -q -P openssh

5. Install ansible

$ pip install ansible
$ ansible --version

6. Check which ssh is used (https://serverfault.com/a/913435)

% which ssh
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/ssh

Note: if not cygwin ssh is used (like above) change env PATH variable for cygwin or change Ansible inventory hosts file items with flag ansible_ssh_executable=/usr/bin/ssh

Answer 3

With later installer https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe you can install ansible and ansible-doc directly. Just select it from the list and set to install.