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nmake.exe, a Microsoft Windows port of make, used to be available for download at the Microsoft knowledge base servers. They've since taken the article down, and I don't know where I can reliably get a standalone version of nmake.exe. I would use a copy from one of the Microsoft Visual Studio development platforms, but I worry that I'll be forgetting to include some spare DLL file.

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I am pretty sure you can't. It's included with Visual Studio these days. You'll find it in the vc/bin subdirectory. Its only non-standard dependency is the DLL version of the CRT, like msvcrt90.dll for the nmake.exe version included with Visual Studio 2008.

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The original download page and file are stored on Web Archive

http://web.archive.org/web/20120402130733/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132084

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  • https://web.archive.org/web/20061013183052/http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe – veganaiZe Dec 09 '20 at 06:45
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There is opensource clone of nmake: https://wiki.qt.io/Jom#Download_the_binary_package enter image description here

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  • Nice to know! But I guess it's *very* likely to be only vaguely compatible with NMAKE (and which version of it? didn't find it mentioned). It has practically zero chance to support all of NMAKE's features, nuances and quirks a bigger build system is likely to grow some vines around. So, for one, instead of a "clone", I'd actually expect an "inspired by" approximation. – Sz. Jan 08 '22 at 22:27