
Installation from GnuWin32 or via winget are good and easy options. But I am surprised not to find one particular solution here.

In the same way, if the compiler is running on Windows, WSL won't help, because in that environment you can only execute Linux tools, not Windows executables. If the compiler is running on Linux, there is no point in installing make for Windows, because you'll have to run both make and the compiler on Linux. If it's from Linux, you might need to use a real Linux or WSL. If the build system was created for Cygwin, it might not work in other environments without modifications (The make language is the same, but escaping, path conversion are working differently, $(realpath) fails on Windows paths, DOS bat files are started as shell scripts and many similar issues).

Note that you might not be able to select your environment. Use mingw32-make.exe from the package, that's more up to date. MinGW abandoned? There was usually MSYS 1.19 bundled with MinGW packages, that contained an old make.exe.Good quality, package manager (pacman), all tooling available. MSYS2 ( ) Works well, second fastest solution after ezwinports.

Worked well but featured very old make (3.86 or so) It's possible to use make from ezwinports and bash from Cygwin or MSYS2 as a workaround. There is no bash provided with it, that can be a problem for some build systems. No bash provided, but it's possible to use it from other packages.

