Can't generate public.crt on Windows 2016

Description of problem:

When I try to create my public.crt file I get errors: configFileLoad: Unknown error Error loading template: cert.cnf

Version of gnutls used:

3.6.11 and 3.6.12

Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)

Windows 2016

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

• one c:\GnuTLS>certtool.exe --generate-privkey --outfile private.key
• two c:\GnuTLS>certtool.exe --generate-self-signed --load-privkey private.key --template cert.cnf --outfile public.crt
• three

Actual results:

c:\GnuTLS>certtool.exe --generate-privkey --outfile private.key Generating a 3072 bit RSA private key...

c:\GnuTLS>certtool.exe --generate-self-signed --load-privkey private.key --template cert.cnf --outfile public.crt libopts error 0 (No error) calling read for 'cert.cnf' configFileLoad: Unknown error Error loading template: cert.cnf

Expected results:

expecting to create a cert.conf file