1. MSVC is not installed by default on Windows. 2. nmake is with POSIX make, let alone GNU make. It doesn't even support .PHONY target, which is what you need

1. MSVC is not installed by default on Windows. 2. nmake is with POSIX make, let alone GNU make. It doesn't even support .PHONY target, which is what you need to replace Just with make. 3. Installing Just with WinGet is simpler, faster and takes probably only 1% of the space of installing Visual Studio for nmake.