

Make sure you don’t lose this! Once complete, restart your machine. Once this is installed, launch Ubuntu and set up your user name and administrative password. I suggest you do a full backup of your machine before adding any subsystem. Now that you are able to install a subsystem, we can find a Ubuntu distribution from the windows store that works very well. From this menu, select (you guessed it) “Windows Subsystem for Linux” and click ok. In the start menu type “Turn Windows features on and off”. To get started we need to turn on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Step 1: Turn on the Windows Subsystem for Linux

To accomplish our task we will need to set up a Unix subsystem on our windows machine and then install make. How could you use what you have, to work with Make? Maybe you’ve inherited a project you plan to sunset and need to do some testing.

Consider a situation though where you needed to use a windows machine. It’s a flexible and light weight solution for most applications, also very affordable. I highly recommend getting a raspberry pi if you need a Unix system. Sounds great right? It is, unless you are running windows and don’t have access to a Unix (or Unix-like) operating system. Why run files manually or update everything when only a few files changed? Established in 1976 and not at all obsolete in 2022, Makefiles still have their place. Makefiles are super cool, they help you create an executable process.
