Is make no longer included with MinGW and/or MSYS?

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Thomas Owens picture Thomas Owens · Dec 1, 2011 · Viewed 24.7k times · Source

I installed MinGW and MSYS on my Windows 7 computer. I added C:\Program Files (x86)\MinGW\bin to my path. Commands such as gcc and g++ work, but make does not. I looked in the directory, and there is no executable called make, even though I installed all components. There is a file called mingw32-make. There are also other files prefixed with mingw32-, such as c++, g++, gcc, gcc-4.6.1, and gfortran. However, there is a make in C:\Program Files (x86)\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin.

If I open the MinGW Shell and type in make, make executes. However, it does not execute from the Windows terminal.

Is this intentional, or could I be missing other executables as well? Should I just add C:\Program Files (x86)\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin to my path?

Answer

eriktous picture eriktous · Dec 1, 2011

Yup, add the msys bin directory to your path (after MinGW's bin dir). That's exactly what the MinGW shell does and why it works there.

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