CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM not found

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I have reached the end of my rope with CMake  it has so much potential  but I cannot seem to make it find the basic system tools  i e  make  in order to function   SYMPTOMS  CMake and the CMake GUI produce the following  after deleting the CMakeCache txt file    Processing top-level CMakelists txt for project swb CMake Error  CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to  MinGW Makefiles   CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM is not set   You probably need to select a different build tool    I am focusing on finding make in this question  however  I ve also had many of the same issues with CMake failing to find libraries and other utility files  linker  nm  ar  etc    The techniques I list below seem to enable CMake to find these files when running under Linux   SYSTEM  Windows 7  64-bit   multiple versions of MinGW  32-bit 64-bit   Cmake 2 8 4  NONSTANDARD install location for MinGW  c  MinGW-32     THINGS I HAVE TRIED   CMakelists txt contains SET  CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM c  MinGW-32 bin make exe FORCE   within the first 10 lines of the file  Previous versions of CMakelists txt contained   find program CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM   NAMES make         make exe   DOC  Find a suitable make program for building under Windows MinGW    HINTS c  MinGW-32 bin      Set CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM in a cmd exe environment variable prior to running either CMake or CMake-GUI  Use of a  toolchain  file which identifies CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM as well as CMAKE C COMPILER  etc    ONE THING THAT HAS WORKED  CMake will successfully create build files IF I use the GUI to populate the CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM variable   C  MinGW-32 bin make exe     QUESTION S   I can get CMake to work if I identify the name of the make program via the GUI  How does one enable CMake to find my make program without user intervention with the Windows 7  64-bit    MinGW combination

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It also happens when I just want to compile opencv2 3 2 with mingw32  in tdm-gcc suites   Often when I install the tdm-gcc  I would like to rename the mingw32-make exe to make exe  And I thinks this could be the question  If cmake is asked to generated a MinGW Makefiles  It would try to find ming32-make exe instead of make exe  So I copy the make exe to mingw32-make exe and reconfigure in Cmake-gui  Finally it works  So I d like to advise to find whether you have mingw32-make exe or not to solve this question

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On ubuntu  i think I was missing the compiler  Fixed with   sudo apt install build-essential

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It seems everybody has different solution  I solved my problem like    When I install 64bit mingw it installed itself to    C  Program Files mingw-w64 x86 64-5 1 0-posix-seh-rt v4-rev0 mingw64 bin    Eventhough mingw-make exe was under the path above  one invalid charecter or long path name confused CMake  I try to add path to environment path  try to give CMAKE as paramater it didn t work for me     Finally I moved complex path of mingw-w64 to  C  mingw64   than set the environment path  restarted CMake  Problem solved for me

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In the GUI  select the  Advanced  checkbox  It should now show several entries below  Rename your mingw32-make exe file to make exe  you can just make a copy  and set the CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM filepath variable to the location of said file

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I had the exact same problem when I tried to compile OpenCV with Qt Creator  MinGW  to build the  a static library files   For those that installed Qt 5 2 1 for Windows 32-bit  MinGW 4 8  OpenGL  634 MB   this problem can be fixed if you add the following to the system s environment variable Path   C  Qt Qt5 2 0 Tools mingw48 32 bin

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I had the same problem and specified CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM in a toolchain file  cmake didn t find it  Then I tried adding -D CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM     in the command-line  then it worked  Then I tried changing the generator from  MinGW Makefiles  to  Unix Makefiles  and removed the -D CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM from the command-line  and then it worked also   So for some reason when the generator is set to  MinGW Makefiles  then the CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM setting in the toolchain file is not effective  but for the  Unix Makefiles  generator it is

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I had the same problem   Installed mingw using the installer provided at http   tdm-gcc tdragon net    It adds the correct environment variables to path when installing mingw  No need to edit the path variable manually   That did the trick for me

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Previous answers suggested  re installing or configuring CMake  they all did not help   Previously MinGW s compilation of Make used the filename mingw32-make exe and now it is make exe  Most suggested ways to configure CMake to use the other file dont work   Just copy make exe and rename the copy mingw32-make exe

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Recently i had the same problem  Compiling OpenCV with CMake and Qt MinGW on WIN764   And I think I solve this including on my environment variable PATH  through Control Panel All Control Panel Items System Advanced Sytem Settings  with the  MINGW DIR  bin and  CMAKE DIR  bin   Furthermore  I installed cmake2 8 on an easy directory  without blanks on it

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I tried to use CMake to build GammaRay for Qt on Windows with mingw  So  I had the Qt installed  And I had the same problem as other users here   The approach that worked for me is launching cmake-gui from Qt build prompt  a shortcut created by Qt installer in  Start Menu All programs Qt QT VERSION   folder

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I   ve just solved the same problem  I had MinGW with GCC and G   installed but not make  This command helped me   mingw-get exe install mingw32-make   After running it  clear CMake cache  delete the CMakeCache txt file in the CMake s working directory  and run CMake again

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Well  if it is useful  I have had several problems with cmake  including this one  They all disappeared when I fix the global variable  in my case the MinGW Codeblocks  PATH in the system  When the codeblocks install is not in default  and for some unknow reason  this global variable does not point to the right place  Check if the path of Codeblocks or MinGW are correct   Right click on  My Computer   Properties  Advanced Properties or Advanced  Environment Variables  to Change the PATH variable  It worked for me

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I have tried to install the missing packages  Installing the toolchain and restarting CLion solved all in my case   pacman -S mingw-w64-x86 64-cmake mingw-w64-x86 64-extra-cmake-modules pacman -S mingw-w64-x86 64-make pacman -S mingw-w64-x86 64-gdb pacman -S mingw-w64-x86 64-toolchain

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I had to add the follow lines to my windows path to fix this  CMAKE should set the correct paths on install otherwise as long as you check the box  This is likely to be a different solution depending on the myriad of versions that are possible to install   C  msys64 mingw32 bin C  msys64 mingw64 bin

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I have two suggestions     Do you have make in your  PATH  environment variable  On my system  I need to add  MINGW DIR  bin to  PATH   Do you have make installed  Depending on your mingw installation  it can be a separate package  Last resort  Can you pass the full path to make on the commandline  cmake -D CMAKE MAKE PROGRAM PATH C  MinGW-32 bin make exe     Source

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I had the same problem which is solved using the following   Try to rename all the folders to not to be more than 8 characters and without spaces

[makefile] CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM not found

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