A batch or PowerShell script potentially could (and it could even be named make.bat, so that instructions would stay the same). Windows does actually support sy

A batch or PowerShell script potentially could (and it could even be named make.bat, so that instructions would stay the same). Windows does actually support symlinks, though the caveat is that it requires elevated privileges. See e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link. I suppose some PowerShell magic could invoke the Admin password prompt, though there's also a question whether it'd be good to condition users to require elevated privileges for some random just downloaded script.