Running makefiles in windows

But all this extra effort is completely unnecessary when you have gnuwin32 , which provides all GNU open source tools for Windows and offers them in the same flavor as in Linux.

Below is an easy 3-step installation guide for getting and using gnuwin32's make command:. Now that the Windows 10 distribution comes bundled with the capability to run Linux as a subsystem, you can directly enable that feature and use make command in the bash shell in my opinion, if you can do that, you should definitely do it. Nonetheless, the above-mentioned steps work in all flavors of Windows OS.

Follow me on twitter at IamShivamMohan. Thanks for visiting DZone today,. Edit Profile. It's probably better to add bin directory to PATH environment variable.

This will make make. I think its done by default - at least that was the case when I installed gnuwin Of course copying the files is bad practice anyway. It is not done by default or not in my case. By adding it to the path, then you can run make from the project folder. Work like a champ — trungducng. I tried all of the above. What helps me: Download the mingw-get. Setup it. Power shell, developer vs cmd, system cmd etc didn't help.

Type mingw-get into the command line. After type mingw-get install mingwmake. Now You might be able to use make-commands from any folder that contains Makefile. Ashish Kankal 3 1 1 bronze badge. Worked great, thank you — Joshua Santiago. I use MinGW tool set which provides mingwmake build tool, if you have it in your PATH system variables , in Windows Command Prompt just go into the directory containing the files and type this command: mingwmake -f Makefile.

Then, you can call nmake -f makefile. Validus Oculus Validus Oculus 2, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. Amit Kumar Amit Kumar 5 5 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Install Git Bash. Run mingwmake from Git Bash.

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