The Nmake utility is still part of the VS .NET distribution tools however
the option "Project | Export Makefile" is not supported in the .NET versions
of Visual Studio.
Nmake can be invoked from the command prompt. The filename follows the "/f" switch
on the nmake command line. Following this, the active configuration must be set
via "cfg=". For example:
nmake /f myproj.mak cfg="Myproj - Win32 Debug"
Specific examples are typically given in exported makefiles.
The linker is "link.exe".
Note: If you are coming from another platform with a Unix makefile,
see the
Porting section for details on how to
modify it to make it acceptable to Nmake.