Install cygwin or msys or WSL? Windows is unusuable otherwise :).
anyway, the particular case here is something like an academic computing cluster, where you don't have administrator access, and you want to compile some package that will install into some place like $HOME/project/usr. The system has no meson or bazel or scons and only some older version of cmake that may not meet the claimed minimum requirement of the random package you want to compile.
Or it's some SBC that you dare not upgrade the operating system on because you don't know if there is some breaking kernel change with some hardware interface.
Sure, locally installing a new version of cmake or some other build system is not too hard, but it's certainly additional friction.
anyway, the particular case here is something like an academic computing cluster, where you don't have administrator access, and you want to compile some package that will install into some place like $HOME/project/usr. The system has no meson or bazel or scons and only some older version of cmake that may not meet the claimed minimum requirement of the random package you want to compile.
Or it's some SBC that you dare not upgrade the operating system on because you don't know if there is some breaking kernel change with some hardware interface.
Sure, locally installing a new version of cmake or some other build system is not too hard, but it's certainly additional friction.