From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2005-12-01T12:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, MySQL on WinXP?

On 11/30/05, Tree Dweller <x@versatechs.com> wrote:

> I don't think the toolkit comes with "nmake" though, so you're out of
> luck w.r.t. executing a make file. You can either try to find someone
> with nmake.exe to give you (illegally, I guess) or you can
> hand-translate a makefile into a series of steps you can call from a
> script.

You can just use MinGW.
http://www.mingw.org/

this gives you gcc and make.