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To compile a c++ project, the IDE requires specified paths to c++ compiler, c compiler, linker, etc, what is absolutely ok, these are installed by standart mingw installer (and on unix systems these are standard system utility). But why does it need the 'make' utility, even on windows? That means I need install msys or similar utility, just to be able to build my c++ program on windows. This is really not necessary as the commands to build the project can be generated by the IDE and sent via the console to the compiler/linker (generating a makefile includes generating the commandline commands, so this should not be a significant problem). Should such a solution be too complicated/unnecessary/unwanted, could there be added the support for the mingw32-make utility? Thanks
also IDE requires sh, cp, mkdir and rm utilities from msys or cygwin
As Valera mentioned, not only make.exe is required for IDE. So there is no much sense to get rid of just make.exe.