Program make not found in PATH

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I m having the Program  make  not found in PATH error in eclipse  I checked the path variable which is   C  cygwin bin   JAVA HOME  bin   ANT HOME  bin   ANDROID SDK  tools   ANDROID SDK  platform-tools   ANDROID NDK    CommonProgramFiles  Microsoft Shared Windows Live  C  Program Files NVIDIA Corporation PhysX Common   SystemRoot  system32   SystemRoot    SystemRoot  System32 Wbem   SYSTEMROOT  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0   C  Program Files Microsoft SQL Server 100 Tools Binn   C  Program Files Microsoft SQL Server 100 DTS Binn   C  Program Files Git cmd   The PATH starts with the folder which contains make  I checked and make exe is in there   but eclipse still goes Program  make  not found in PATH   I have tried changing the path and restarting several times but nothing seems to change

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Make sure you have installed  make  tool through Cygwin s installer

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You may try altering toolchain in case if for some reason you can t use gcc  Open Properties for your project  by right clicking on your project name in the Project Explorer   then C C   Build   Tool Chain Editor  You can change the current builder there from GNU Make Builder to CDT Internal Builder or whatever compatible you have

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Are you trying to run  Hello world  for the first time  Please make sure you choose proper toolchain  For Windows you have to choose MinGW GCC    To make MinGW GCC compiler as default or change you original project with error  Program    make    not found in PATH  or  launch failed binary not found eclipse c    when you trying to run program simply go to Windows    Preferences    C C   Build    Tool Chain Editor    Change Current toolchain to MinGW GCC

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Probably there are some files inside C  cygwin bin called xxxxxmake exe  try renaming it to make exe

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If you are using GNU MCU Eclipse on Windows  make sure Windows Build Tools are installed  then check the installation path and fill the  Global Build Tools Path  inside Eclipse Window Preferences

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Additional hint  If you have multiple projects with different toolchains open  check the build console header for the failing project s path    I ve just spent half an hour trying to fix a build that showed this error because another project with hopelessly outdated toolchain settings was open in the same workbench  Closing the other project re-enabled the build

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In MinGW  I had to install the following things   Basic Setup - gt  mingw32-base   Basic Setup - gt  mingw32-gcc-g     Basic Setup - gt  msys-base    And in Eclipse  go to  Windows - gt  Preferences - gt  C C   - gt  Build - gt  Environment   And set the following environment variables  with  Append variables to native environment  option set    MINGW HOME   C  MinGW PATH   C  MinGW bin C  MinGW msys 1 0 bin   Click  Apply  and then  OK    This worked for me  as far as I can tell

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If you are using MinGW toolchain for CDT  make exe is found at C  MinGW msys 1 0 bin   or search the make exe in MinGW folder    Add this path in eclipse window- preferences- environment

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Go to Project  Properties  C C   Build  Environment  You will see three fields  choose PATH  See if the folder containing make exe is appended to the path or not  Sometimes the change to the System PATH variable  made from My Computer  Properties  Advanced System Settings     is NOT reflected in Eclipse  This solved the problem for me  hope it helps you too

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I had the same problem    Initially I had setup Eclipse CDT with Cygwing  amp  was working smoothly  One day there happened a problem due to which I had to reset windows  After that when I opened Eclipse I started facing the issue described above  This is how I solved it   First I searched that in the error the PATH variable value is same as the PATH variable of windows   just by manual comparison of both two values    I found that to be same  Now I realized that it is a PATH problem   Then started looking for Cygwin whether it is there or not  It was there  I located  amp  found that it exists in   C  cygwin64 bin gt  C  cygwin64 bin gt dir ma   Volume in drive C is Windows8 OS  Volume Serial Number is 042E-11B5   Directory of C  cygwin64 bin  16-05-2015  18 34            10 259 mag exe 13-08-2013  04 57               384 mailmail 11-04-2015  02 56             4 252 make-emacs-shortcut 15-02-2015  23 25           194 579 make exe 04-05-2015  21 36            40 979 makeconv exe 29-07-2013  11 57            29 203 makedepend exe 16-05-2015  18 34            79 891 makeindex exe 16-05-2015  18 34            34 323 makejvf exe 07-05-2015  03 04               310 mako-render 18-04-2015  02 07            92 179 man exe 18-04-2015  02 07           113 683 mandb exe 13-08-2013  04 57               286 manhole 18-04-2015  02 07            29 203 manpath exe 24-10-2014  13 31           274 461 mate-terminal exe 24-10-2014  13 31             1 366 mate-terminal wrapper               15 File s         905 358 bytes                0 Dir s   373 012 271 104 bytes free  C  cygwin64 bin gt    Then I simply went ahead  amp  updated the PATH variable to include this path  amp  restarted eclipse   The code compiles  amp  debugging  GDB   is working nicely   Hope this helps

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If you are using MinGw  rename the mingw32-make exe to make exe in the folder   C  MinGW bin   or wherever minGw is installed in your system

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Just to clarify the details that Adel s linked eclipse forum covers  here s how I solved this  on OS X    Note  for me  even though my personal environment  i e  if in bash  echo  PATH  had  Developer usr bin in it  I still had to add it to Eclipse s Environment variables   Go to Eclipse Preferences - gt  C C   - gt  Build - gt  Environment - gt  Add   - gt     PATH   Developer usr bin   In the case of some other OS  just use the right path where make exists

[eclipse] Program "make" not found in PATH

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