2020.01.22 16:47 "Re: [Tiff] Warnings while building tools", by Greg Troxel

cmake may well be better and all that but for users who are not programmers the suppression of the nmake build system will be close to a nightmare. Again, looks like professional developers are not very sensitive to the needs of the common man. We are used to quickly build the tools when a new release appears and just go on with the work as usual. This will add a whole new level of complexity which most will not be willing to address because they are too busy with their normal work.

A welcome alternative, of course, would be to also have a release of binaries of the tools, as happens with ImageMagick and many others.

It sounds like there is a need/opportunity for someone to provide paid support for windows users :-)