


Another suggestion I could make is to embedded cmake -E based commands in makefiles instead, but installing cmake just to run simple makefiles cross-platform seems a bit much.ĭanill, you are missing what the use case is. Incidentally the synthesized command this produces from vscode also works fine on unix systems, too, making generic makefiles truly cross-platform. For vscode, you can run bash -c "make target", or per their json, it is synthesized from something like:įinding a simple way to offer this kind of functionality as an option in the jetbrain makefile plugin on windows would be very nice since you don't need other things installed other than choco make, as you would already very likely have git bash for windows. At least on vscode, I found that the "git" bash and the choco installed "make" can be made to work for many unix makefiles, which typically may have common unix shell commands embedded in them (mkdir, rm, etc), without requiring cygwin, mingw, or anything else.
