My laptop has bitten the dust. Until I have the chance to open it up and see if the damage is fixable, I have been borrowing my wife's computer to tinker (to her annoyance, I'm sure, but she used my laptop until we replaced the desktop so all's fair). I was going to install noweb on cygwin, and hit the following error on build:

In file included from notangle.nw:28:
getline.h:4: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/sys/stdio.h:37: error: previous declaration of 'getline' was here
getline.h:4: error: conflicting types for 'getline'
/usr/include/sys/stdio.h:37: error: previous declaration of 'getline' was here

As I had built noweb before, this error struck me as a little strange. It turns out, that in stdio.h, Cygwin includes its own definition of getline, unlike on standard Unix-likes. A quick googling turned up that this was not unique to noweb, but that other packages had encountered similar difficulties. The answer that worked for me is here:

http://ftp.tug.org/mail/archives/pdftex/2006-February/006370.html

In sort, all one has to do is open /usr/include/sys/stdio.h and comment out the line that reads:

ssize_t _EXFUN(getline, (char **, size_t *, FILE *));

For safety's sake, I reinstated the line after installing noweb and everything seems to be running fine.