Is there an equivalent of Make on Windows? [closed]

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

Make is available in cygwin, which you can install make via the installer.

The package is called "make", which is under "Devel" category.