Fix Windows startup and dependency checks (#1709)

* windows check and dev fixes

* fix windows startup scripts

* fix windows startup scripts

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Co-authored-by: Willem Jiang <willem.jiang@gmail.com>

Makefile

@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@
 
 .PHONY: help config config-upgrade check install dev dev-daemon start stop up down clean docker-init docker-start docker-stop docker-logs docker-logs-frontend docker-logs-gateway
 
-PYTHON ?= python
 BASH ?= bash
 
 # Detect OS for Windows compatibility
 ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
     SHELL := cmd.exe
+    PYTHON ?= python
+else
+    PYTHON ?= python3
 endif
 
 help:
@@ -96,6 +98,7 @@ setup-sandbox:
 
 # Start all services in development mode (with hot-reloading)
 dev:
+	@$(PYTHON) ./scripts/check.py
 ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
 	@call scripts\run-with-git-bash.cmd ./scripts/serve.sh --dev
 else
@@ -104,6 +107,7 @@ endif
 
 # Start all services in production mode (with optimizations)
 start:
+	@$(PYTHON) ./scripts/check.py
 ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
 	@call scripts\run-with-git-bash.cmd ./scripts/serve.sh --prod
 else
@@ -112,7 +116,12 @@ endif
 
 # Start all services in daemon mode (background)
 dev-daemon:
+	@$(PYTHON) ./scripts/check.py
+ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
+	@call scripts\run-with-git-bash.cmd ./scripts/start-daemon.sh
+else
 	@./scripts/start-daemon.sh
+endif
 
 # Stop all services
 stop: