How to use GNU Make on Windows?

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yak picture yak · Oct 14, 2012 · Viewed 165.6k times · Source

I installed MinGW and MSYS, added C:\MinGW\bin to PATH but I still can't run Makefile on Windows' cmd. I would like to run cmd.exe and there type, for example, make all but my cmd says that there is no such command.

What should I do? I don't want to use MSYS shell, that's not the point. Any ideas how to use GNU Make in Windows cmd as I can do it in Ubuntu? I'm not interested in Cygwin.

Answer

user1594322 picture user1594322 · Oct 14, 2012

Here's how I got it to work:

  copy c:\MinGW\bin\mingw32-make.exe c:\MinGW\bin\make.exe

Then I am able to open a command prompt and type make:

  C:\Users\Dell>make
  make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Which means it's working now!

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