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On the various Microsoft Windows platforms, command-line tools for development are seldom used.

Accordingly, there are many commercial and non-commercial solutions, however each has a different design commonly creating incompatibilities.

Most major compiler vendors for Windows still provide free copies of their command-line tools, including Microsoft ( Visual C ++, Platform SDK,. NET Framework SDK, nmake utility ), Embarcadero Technologies ( bcc32 compiler, make utility ).