MINGW64 “make build” error: “bash: make: command n

Question

I am working on Windows 10. I want to run a "make build" in MINGW64 but following error comes up:

$ make build
bash: make: command not found

I want to build Glide for Golang

I tried following:

$ sudo yum install build-essential
bash: sudo: command not found

As well as:

$ yum install build-essential
bash: yum: command not found

And:

$ apt-cyg build-essential
bash: apt-cyg: command not found

How can I "work-around" this problem?

Answer 1

Try using cmake itself. In the build directory, run:

cmake --build .

Answer 2

You have to install mingw-get and after that you can run mingw-get install msys-make to have the command make available.

Here is a link for what you want http://www.mingw.org/wiki/getting_started

Answer 3

• Go to ezwinports, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

• Download make-4.2.1-without-guile-w32-bin.zip (get the version without guile)

• Extract zip
• Copy the contents to C:\ProgramFiles\Git\mingw64\ merging the folders, but do NOT overwrite/replace any exisiting files.

Answer 4

You can also use Chocolatey.

Having it installed, just run:

choco install make

When it finishes, it is installed and available in Git for Bash / MinGW.