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		maccard on Sept 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Like Makefiles Nothing is installed out of the box on windows, but anyone with a functioning development environment for a large number of programming languages will have installed wsl, msys or git bash along the way and have make installed as part of it.

bmacho on Sept 21, 2024 [–]

I don't think git bash comes with a make.

maccard on Sept 21, 2024 | [–]

So it doesn’t. TIL.

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