Please add cygwin suppport

[ruby186]

please add full cygwin support, we can build and use it under cygwin.

[thasmo]

Oh, please - that would be such a nice addition!

[indutny]

Hm... why not just use native binary?

[bnoordhuis]

Cygwin was dropped in node v0.5 and very few people missed it. If nothing else, our dependencies V8 and libuv don't really support it (not at all in the case of libuv, always broken in V8) and I don't think the build system, gyp, supports it either. If you want to work on this, you have your work cut out for you.

[thasmo]

Fair, thanks for the information!

[piscisaureus]

Let me add that we do consider issues encountered when running under cygwin as issues. E.g., in the past we've landed some fixes to make node play nice with the cygwin terminal.

[fov42550564]

on cygwin, nodejs and iojs work well for me
install nodejs on windows
on cygwin, node -e "console.log('hello world')", result is hello world
on windows node_modules install express
on cygwin's path /cygwin/f/test, node -e "console.log(require('express'))", error
use linkd %NODE_PATH% cygpath /cygwin/f/node_modules
or use npm link modules to /cygwin/f/node_modules
now can find express
so native nodejs can use on cygwin smooth
can't run node on cygwin mintty
but we can use cygstart node or cygstart /bin/bash xx.node or cygstart /bin/bash node xx.js
so I think not need cygwin build iojs or nodejs