> I'd be _really_ surprised to find a platform without any 
> access to make these days; it would seem pretty suicidal on
> the part of any commercial device, and socially unnacceptable
> for any hobby/hacker device.

The closest you can get to is probably MS Visual C++. It supposedly has
a make (called nmake) but you _really_ don't want to learn about it ;-)

> Can anyone think of such a beast? Lend me one and I'll try to 
> make a way to get it to work...

Well, you could try the embedded toolkit from Microsoft (ships for a
nominal cost of $10 or so).

Cheers,
 - Andreas