If you do not know what Pipe Viewer is (I did not know about it until 5 minutes ago), then this blog does a good job giving a brief introduction to it with some examples. I writ
I doubt such a tool exists for win32, but it should run on cygwin. But then again You probably don't use it :)
I finally made it work on Cygwin environment though that is not answer for the original post.
--disable-nls
does the trick.
./configure --disable-nls
make
make test
cp pv /usr/bin
== by Kenji (k2) ==
Cygwin has pv (Pipe Viewer) as an available package since I don't know when... but it is not installed by default.
If you have already installed cygwin, you can always add it later on by re-running the setup executable.