diff -r 57de516bbbe8 build.gradle
--- a/build.gradle Thu Mar 10 07:53:00 2016 -0800
+++ b/build.gradle Fri Mar 11 17:12:45 2016 -0500
@@ -99,10 +99,6 @@
  * Converts cygwin style paths to windows style paths, but with a forward slash.
  * This method is safe to call from any platform, and will only do work if
  * called on Windows (in all other cases it simply returns the supplied path.
- * In the future I would like to modify this so that it only does work if
- * cygwin is installed, as I hope one day to remove the requirement to build
- * with cygwin, but at present (due to GStreamer / Webkit) cygwin is needed
- * anyway.
  *
  * @param path the path to convert
  * @return the path converted to windows style, if on windows, otherwise it
@@ -112,12 +108,9 @@
     if (!IS_WINDOWS) return path;
     if (path == null || "".equals(path)) return path;
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
- logger.info("Converting path '$path' via cygpath")
- exec {
- standardOutput = out
- commandLine "cmd", "/c", "cygpath", "-m", path
- }
- return out.toString().trim();
+ String ret = path.replaceAll('\\\\', '/')
+ logger.info("Converting path '$path' via cygpath to "+ret)
+ return ret
 }

 void loadProperties(String sourceFileName) {