To use telegram-cli in Windows, you should compile with Cygwin which has POSIX API functionality.
Install Cygwin.
In Cygwin Terminal, install cygwin's package manager, apt-cyg, as per apt-cyg's project page:
lynx -source rawgit.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg/master/apt-cyg > apt-cyg
install apt-cyg /bin
Then install compiler and tools: if you're on the 32-bit version of cygwin,
apt-cyg install gcc-core gcc-g++ gcc-core gcc-g++ make wget patch diffutils grep tar gzip autoconf automake libtool git zlib-devel
Whereas on the 64-bit version,
apt-cyg install cygwin32-gcc-core cygwin32-gcc-g++ gcc-core gcc-g++ make wget patch diffutils grep tar gzip zlib-devel
You need libraries readline, openssl, libconfig, liblua, python and libjansson to use telegram-cli's full functionality.
Clone this project's GitHub Repository in Cygwin Terminal
git clone --recursive https://github.com/vysheng/tg.git
Then type:
apt-cyg install libevent-devel openssl-devel libreadline-devel lua-devel python3
(Install package 'python' to use Python 2.7, or install package 'python3' to use Python 3)
libconfig and libjansson are not included in the cygwin package, so you should compile them yourself.
Compile libconfig:
wget https://github.com/hyperrealm/libconfig/archive/v1.7.2.tar.gz
mv v1.7.2.tar.gz libconfig-1.7.2.tar.gz
tar xvf libconfig-1.7.2.tar.gz && cd libconfig-1.7.2
autoreconf
./configure
make && make install && cd ..
Compile libjansson:
wget http://www.digip.org/jansson/releases/jansson-2.7.tar.gz
tar xvf jansson-2.7.tar.gz && cd jansson-2.7
./configure
make && make install && cd ..
Then, change to the tg directory and generate the Makefile.
cd tg
./configure
In case configure fails, it might be because of the CRLF line endings, so:
dos2unix -f configure
And again,
./configure
We need to patch the Makefile and loop.c to compile properly in cygwin. The patch is included, so just type:
patch -p1 < telegram-cli-cygwin.patch
Then,
make
Once the compilation is complete, telegram-cli.exe will be found in the bin subdirectory.
To run telegram-cli, type
bin/telegram-cli -k tg-server.pub
Caution: A binary compiled with Cygwin should be run in Cygwin Terminal.