With regards to a windows binariy, i saw the following file
https://github.com/agentzh/openresty/blob/master/inc/Module/Install/Win32.pmbasically it just checks if nmake is available, and if not tries to download it from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc15/Patch/1.52/W95/EN-US/Nmake15.exe
or
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/Nmake15.exe
It's location needs to be in %PATH%, but is that the only requirement? I am going to give it a shot and report back,...