Installing node.js on Windows

Running node.js on windows now is not that difficult. I cheated and installed some binaries, rather than building from source via cygwin.

Here are the steps I took:

• Download the binaries from http://node-js.prcn.co.cc/. Find the latest “complete” release which was 0.3.1_2 as of writing.
• Unzip to whereever you like on your disk
• Start cygwin and add node.exe to your path. On my system, I edit /home/smwhit/.bashrc and add the following line at the end export PATH=.:/cygdrive/c/dev/node/bin:`printenv PATH`. Note how you refer to your windows C drive as /cygdrive/[drive letter].
• Follow the Hello World article at http://howtonode.org/hello-node

Hope that helps someone else get started