In the makefile on Windows.

With the following make version:

I have tried to set SHELL := pwsh / COMSPEC := pwsh and run command without explicit shell specifying:

without success. I’ve got an error:

If shell specified explicitly in the command, it works:

run:

Also, i’ve looked into make documentation:

However, on MS-DOS and MS-Windows the value of SHELL in the
environment is used, since on those systems most users do not set this
variable, and therefore it is most likely set specifically to be used
by make. On MS-DOS, if the setting of SHELL is not suitable for make,
you can set the variable MAKESHELL to the shell that make should use;
if set it will be used as the shell instead of the value of SHELL.

So i tried to set environment variable SHELL/MAKESHELL with no result:

So, isn’t there a way to specify pwsh as a default shell?

What @raspy says is true, but, I found a glorious workaround!

If you take a look at this if statement right here you’ll notice that if the shellflags is set to something besides -c or -ce it will always use the slow option (Which means it will always execute through the SHELL rather the binary directly! 🎉🎉). Luckily for us, we can set the .SHELLFLAGS directly, take a look at these docs

In any event, all that means we need to do is set the .SHELLFLAGS to something besides -c or -ce, for example with powershell we can use -Command, tying it all together:

Or, in my example where I want PowerShell.exe on Windows & the default shell on Linux:

Cheers!