use `bower init` within MinTTY

Question

I'm trying to use bower init from a MinTTY shell on Windows 8.1 x64 but I get this error:

sh-3.1$ bower init
bower ENOINT        Register requires an interactive shell

How can I use this command inside MinTTY?

Answer 1

This is because bower requires nodejs and unfortunately nodejs doesnt support cygwin - https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/wiki/Installation#building-on-cygwin