The advantage of writing a Makefile is that "make" is generally assumed to be present on the various Unices (Linux and Mac primarily).

Now I have the following Makefile:

PYTHON := python

all: e installdeps

e:
        virtualenv --distribute --python=${PYTHON} e

installdeps:
        e/bin/python setup.py develop

clean:
        rm -rf e

As you can see this Makefile uses simple targets and variable substitution. Can this be achieved on Windows? By that mean - without having to install external tools (like cygwin make); perhaps make.cmd? Typing "make installdeps" for instance, should work both on Unix and Windows.