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Re:I Like Makefiles by oguz-ismail on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:49AM (#41608578)
nmake comes with msvc
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Re:I Like Makefiles by unscaled on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:32AM (#41608744)
1. MSVC is not installed by default on Windows.

2. nmake is with POSIX make, let alone GNU make. It doesn't even support .PHONY target, which is what you need to replace Just with make.

3. Installing Just with WinGet is simpler, faster and takes probably only 1% of the space of installing Visual Studio for nmake.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by overanalytcl on Saturday September 21, 2024 @08:53AM (#41609649)
> 1. MSVC is not installed by default on Windows.

Neither is Make or GCC on Unix.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by wruza on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:02AM (#41608620)
Yeah, “just install msvc”. It’s easier to install msys2 when you’re that desperate. At least the tool name will be “make” out of box.
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