Any Luck running on Cygwin/Windows?

I got as far as:

node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
Error: Cannot find module 'C:\usr\local\bin\mint'
at Function._resolveFilename (module.js:334:11)
at Function._load (module.js:279:25)
at Array.0 (module.js:470:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

Then realized it's attempting to look in /usr/local/bin which is fine from cygwin but external to cygwin (ie: from the node executable) the path looks like c:\usr\local\bin\mint.

From there i created a symlink at C:\usr that points to C:\cygwin\usr (mklink /D c:\usr c:\cygwin\usr)

After that I got as far as this:

C:\usr\local\bin\mint:1
!��/
^

node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
at Module._compile (module.js:427:25)
at Object..js (module.js:450:10)
at Module.load (module.js:351:31)
at Function._load (module.js:310:12)
at Array.0 (module.js:470:10)
at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:192:40)

And i'm stuck...

No source file or test is identified in the report. Reproduce the launch under Cygwin/Windows, starting with the /usr/local/bin/mint path and the C:\usr\local\bin\mint symlink case; done means determining whether Mint can run in this environment and isolating the reported module and syntax errors.