In my opinion, if you are developing for a Linux deployment on Windows it's easier to use VirtualBox to host a Linux OS.

(That goes out the window if you are talking about performance testing of course.)

My first corporate issued laptop wasn't beefy enough to run Linux under a VM. Besides, it's convenient to have everything under one file space (moving things to and from the VM tends to be a pain - and if you get your email on Windows, important files will be, more often than not - on the wrong side). Add to that the fact Cygwin gives Windows a bunch of nice tools, langauges and a decent shell and windowed console.

I just tried to install node on cygwin and it failed with this error:

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src/uv-cygwin.c:33: error: ‘CLOCK_MONOTONIC’ undeclared (first use in this function)

src/uv-cygwin.c:33: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

src/uv-cygwin.c:33: error: for each function it appears in.)

make[1]: * [src/uv-platform.o] Error 1

It's been fixed in master. 0.5.2 comes out tomorrow (if all goes well) and will also contain the fix.

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/issues/112 for details.

Thank you - that's great news. I'll keep an eye out for it.

I think you need cygwin 1.7.6 or newer to support CLOCK_MONOTONIC: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html

Just a note, I use Node across Linux, OSX, and Cygwin on windows. I have zero problems with a NPM lib of 40+ modules. Everything from connect to bcrypt.

I have abandoned Windows again a couple years back, but, from my experience, most stuff that compiles cleanly under Linux, compiles cleanly under Cygwin. Do you have the required libraries? What did configure say? Can you try an older version (one known to work) to see if it compiles?