Windows equivalent to this Makefile

Question

The advantage of writing a Makefile is that "make" is generally assumed to be present on the various Unices (Linux and Mac primarily).

Now I have the following Makefile:

PYTHON := python

all: e installdeps

e:
        virtualenv --distribute --python=${PYTHON} e

installdeps:
        e/bin/python setup.py develop
        e/bin/pip install unittest2

test:   
        e/bin/unit2 discover

clean:  
        rm -rf e

As you can see this Makefile uses simple targets and variable substitution. Can this be achieved on Windows? By that mean - without having to install external tools (like cygwin make); perhaps make.cmd? Typing "make installdeps" for instance, should work both on Unix and Windows.

Answer 1

Something simple like that, yes. However, if you'd like to continue to improve that makefile, you might consider just writing the "makefile" (rather installation script) in a more portable language. You have to have some assumptions. If its a python project, I'm sure you assume python is installed. So write the equivalent of your makefile in python.