On the one hand, that sounds great! on the other, I'm feeling lazy and not wanting to deal with installing all of the needed packages/libraries to get things complied and running in cygwin (although I'm surprised not everything I needed was there, I did a full cygwin install!)... especially when I can put together some somewhat nasty bash scripts to do the same thing
but maybe something other people might be interested in, if I get motivated at some point...