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Make

GNU Make, or simply Make, is a utility tool designed initially to help to compile code from its source. It is provided as part of any Unix system, so chances are you have it on your Mac or Linux. On Windows, the NMake tool (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/nmake-reference?view=vs-2019) can be used as a replacement.

In a nutshell, Make can run one of a few recipes from a Makefile – a tiny text file that is very easy to write. While we obviously don't need to compile Python, Make's interface is so simple, it is quite popular as a common interface for utility scripts or operations. Inside, it has nothing but shell commands. The following is an example Makefile, containing two recipes – test and upload. Both instructions ...