To get ArX to compile with Cygwin, you must select the following
packages in setup.exe

gnome-vfs2
libbonobo2-dev
patch
diffutils
python
gcc-c++
pkgconfig
make
gnupg (optional)


When configuring, you have to set CPPFLAGS to -DBOOST_POSIX, as in

  ./configure CPPFLAGS="-DBOOST_POSIX" --prefix=/path/to/install/dir

The gconf daemon tends to leave stale locks, causing ArX to hang when
accessing some sites.  To fix this, "kill -9" all gconfd processes you
see with "ps aux", and "rm -rf $TMP/gconfd*".