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by thedumbname 1173 days ago
Use Makefile if you want to make your cross-platform build environment Linux only. You will have all kind of issues on Windows, Mac, *BSD, you name it.
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quesera 1173 days ago
You can resolve the differences between BSD and GNU make.

Not sure about Windows. I'd expect that WSL bundles GNU make, no?

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jjgreen 1173 days ago
Make is in POSIX, so stick to POSIX features and your Makefile is portable across all reasonable systems. For Windows, I guess you use a .bat file.
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raffraffraff 1172 days ago
Is that more of an issue if you shell-out a lot in your Makefile? (I don't use mac or win)
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