The symptom while running simple-p2p (either cygwin or linux) is 

Invalid value: Queue=DropTailQueue 
Segmentation fault 

This is the output of an assert that fires during Bind().  The root cause is that the following (global constructor) code in drop-tail-queue.cc is not executed:

const ClassId DropTailQueue::cid = 
  MakeClassId<DropTailQueue> ("DropTailQueue", Queue::iid); 

This code is not executed since simple-p2p doesn't directly reference drop-tail-queue.o and therefore the linker optimizes out the calls to initialize the constructors.

If I add the following code to simple-p2p.cc 

  DropTailQueue *q = new DropTailQueue; 
  delete q; 

The linker figures out that I'm interested in drop-tail-queue.o and will run the global constructor and the Bind() will succeed, but another assert fires at a later time,

No Scheduler factory registered 
Segmentation fault 

Presumably due to the same "feature."

Generally the answer to problems like this is to use shared libraries.  Unfortunately, shared library versions don't work on Cygwin (see bug 40)