node/deps/uv/README

This is the new networking layer for Node. Its purpose is to abstract
IOCP on windows and libev on Unix systems. We intend to eventually contain
all platform differences in this library.

http://nodejs.org/

(This was previously called liboio)

Supported Platforms:

Microsoft Windows operating systems since Windows XP sp2. It can be built
with either Visual Studio or MinGW.

Linux 2.6 and MacOS using the GCC toolchain.

Solaris 121 and later using GCC toolchain.