Is there an equivalent of Make on Windows?

Question

I develop on Windows, and I'd like to use beanstalkd. It's only available as a tarball, and I was just wondering if there is some way to easily build it like you can in Linux? I found some ports of gnu make for Windows, but they don't seem to be working. Are the source distributions somehow specific to Linux?

When I try to use mingw32-make it says "Nothing to be done for file". TBH I wasn't sure what to run it on, so I tried the tarball, the directory, and Makefile.in and Makefile.am. They all say the same thing.

Answer 1

I found some ports of gnu make for Windows, but they don't seem to be working.

Here are a few ports of GNU tools to Windows:

• GnuWin32 - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/summary.html
• Gnu Tools for NT - http://www.devhood.com/Tools/tool_details.aspx?tool_id=3
• GNU Utilities for Win32 - http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

I am pretty sure I have used some of the utilities from the unxutils port without problems.