Nodejs on Windows 7
Hey, this post is more for my refernce, but others out there in internet land may find it useful, so read on…
I’ve been following the installation process over at codebetter and during the process I ran into a few issues, this post is only concerned with the issues I found, and how I bodged my way to a working install.
The first issue I encountered was during the ./configure set, Cygwin was complaining that it couldn’t find a c compiler, quickly my google-foo found the following like, which fixed that presky issue.
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg01241.html
Next up I ran into an issue with cxx, and it not wanting to work, google found me an artical explaining that mingw wasn’t correctly linked or something, either way the fix can be found in the following link.
http://blog.brev.name/2010/09/nodejs-on-windows-7-under-cygwin.html
Once that was done I just needed to run make and its all good, though I’d forgotten to download OpenSSL when I was downloading Cygwin, so I got an additional error, but that was due to old fashioned incompetance 
make took about 4-5 minutes, as it has to do a whole bunch of awesomeness, with make install taking 1-2 seconds.
And with that I have a working node install in windows, now time to start messing with some code that should just execute in a range of browsers, and in the node base command line.