Hi and thanks for all your answers,

I found it necessary to mention, that cygwin DID do the job great. Everything works like a charm. It even works so good, that I wouldn't talk of a port.

True, one had to install about 300MB of software under cygwin (gcc, perl, base system, make, ...) and then some

perl -MCPAN -e shell

but from the scripts side, the system is nearly undistinguishable from linux (except $^O :-)).