[TheRealPomax]

The fact that make is basically useless on Windows still makes it "not the first thing to try", to be honest. And it's rare to still see a project that can't be cross-platform, only lots that went "well my computer runs XYZ so I'm only compiling on that" =)

[alextingle]

Make works just fine on Windows.

[TheRealPomax]

"Can be made to work", absolutely. "Works fine", gonna have to disagree. The hoops one needs to jump through for every single new project that uses Makefiles in some new and creative "works flawlessly on unixy systems, why aren't you on one of those?" are appreciably larger than zero.

[legobmw99]

If you’re very careful with forward-vs-back slashes and your username isn’t “Firstname Lastname”, sure. But in practice there are tons of issues especially for non expert users