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• For building OWFS 2.9x on Cygwin please see Building OWFS 2.9x on Cygwin
• To install the required Cygwin packages for compiling OWFS and for running iButtonManger I use apt-cyg, a command line tool similar to apt-get used in Debian, Ubuntu. To use apt-cyg make sure you have wget installed and execute the following commands.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg
chmod +x apt-cyg
mv apt-cyg /usr/local/bin/
apt-cyg install gcc-core automake autoconf make patch libtool vim ed libusb1.0 libusb1.0-devel \
  procps dialog curl usbutils

• Download owfs from http://owfs.sourceforge.net
  • Extract the source code
  • Compile owfs by issuing

./bootstrap
./configure --disable-owtcl 
make
make install

See http://libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend Chapter “Driver Installation”. I recommend to use Zadig http://zadig.akeo.ie/ to perform the driver installation. This is required in order for owserver to be able to connect to the USB device. It seems that the command lsusb shows the device also without the driver being installed.

Afterwards testlibusb should report the USB-Adapter

$ testlibusb
  Dev #0: 0000 - 0000
  Dev #1: 04FA - 2490

Connect the OW-USB-Adapter and start owserver, owhttp. Then browse to http://localhost:3001/

/opt/owfs/bin/owserver.exe -u -p 3000
/opt/owfs/bin/owhttpd.exe -s 3000 -p 3001

#Read directory 
/opt/owfs/bin/owdir.exe -s 3000 /