Linux WMI Client | Stuff I'm Up To

I’m trying to gather some inventory data from our Windows Servers and thought I’d try to do this from a Linux environment. There is a wmi client for Linux but doesn’t seem in active development. Looks like you have to compile it yourself. So I downloaded it and tried to compile it on my Debian system and it failed with an error:

cd Samba/source ; \
        cp bin/winexe ../../bin ; \
        cp bin/wmic ../../bin ; \
        cp bin/shared/*async_wmi_lib.so.0* ../../lib/python
cp: cannot stat ‘bin/winexe’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat ‘bin/wmic’: No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat ‘bin/shared/*async_wmi_lib.so.0*’: No such file or directory
make: *** [pywmi-installed] Error 1

Bit of a Google returns the necessary fix.

Try adding compiler option -ffreestanding. It worked for me with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
make "CPP=gcc -E -ffreestanding"

References

https://www.aldeid.com/wiki/Wmic-linux http://askubuntu.com/questions/473523/installing-wmic-on-ubuntu-server-12-04-lts