How to run a makefile in Windows

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I have some demos that I downloaded and they come with a Makefile win and a Makefile sgi  How can I run these in Windows to compile the demos

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If you install Cygwin  Make sure to select make in the installer  You can then run the following command provided you have a Makefile   make -f Makefile  https   cygwin com install html

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If you have Visual Studio  run the Visual Studio Command prompt from the Start menu  change to the directory containing Makefile win and type this   nmake -f Makefile win   You can also use the normal command prompt and run vsvars32 bat  c  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 9 0 Common7 Tools for VS2008   This will set up the environment to run nmake and find the compiler tools

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Check out cygwin  a Unix alike environment for Windows

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Download from https   sourceforge net projects gnuwin32  Set the variable path in advance setting for recognize in command prompt  C  Program Files  x86  GnuWin32 bin

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Firstly  add path of visual studio common tools  c  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 14 0 Common7 Tools  into the system path  To learn how to add a path into system path  please check this website  http   www computerhope com issues ch000549 htm  You just need to this once    After that  whenever you need  open a command line and execute vsvars32 bat to add all required visual studio tools  paths into the system path   Then  you can call nmake -f makefile mak  PS  Path of visual studio common tools might be different in your system  Please change it accordingly

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With Visual Studio 2017 I had to add this folder to my Windows 10 path env variable   C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Professional VC Tools MSVC 14 10 25017 bin HostX64 x64   There s also HostX86

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If it is a  NMake Makefile   that is to say the syntax and command is compatible with NMake  it will work natively on Windows  Usually Makefile win  the  win suffix  indicates it s a makefile compatible with Windows NMake  So you could try nmake -f Makefile win   Often standard Linux Makefiles are provided and NMake looks promising  However  the following link takes a simple Linux Makefile and explains some fundamental issues that one may encounter  It also suggests a few alternatives to handling Linux Makefiles on Windows   Makefiles in Windows

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I am assuming you added mingw32 bin is added to environment variables else please add it and I am assuming it as gcc compiler and you have mingw installer  First step  download mingw32-make exe from mingw installer  or please check mingw bin folder first whether mingw32-make exe exists or not  else than install it  rename it to make exe  After renaming it to make exe  just go and run this command in the directory where makefile is located  Instead of renaming it you can directly run it as mingw32-make  After all  a command is just exe file or a software  we use its name to execute the software  we call it as command

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Maybe you can try NetBeans IDE

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I tried with cygwin  amp  gnuwin  and didn t worked for me  I guess because the makefile used mainly specific linux code   What it worked was use Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10  This is a Marvel if you come from MAC as it is my case    To install the Ubuntu Bash  https   itsfoss com install-bash-on-windows   Once in the console  to install make simply type  make  and it gives the instructions to download it    Extras    Useful enable copy   paste on bash  Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows In my case the make called Maven  so I have to install it as well  https   askubuntu com questions 722993 unable-to-locate-package-maven To access windows filesystem C  drive  for example   cd  mnt c     Hope it helps

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Check out GnuWin s make  for windows   which provides a native port for Windows  without requiring a full runtime environment like Cygwin  If you have winget  you can install via the CLI like this  winget install GnuWin32 Make  Also  be sure to add the install path to your system PATH  C  Program Files  x86  GnuWin32 bin

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Here is my quick and temporary way to run a Makefile   download make from SourceForge  gnuwin32 install it go to the  install folder       C  Program Files  x86  GnuWin32 bin    copy the all files in the bin to the folder that contains Makefile      libiconv2 dll  libintl3 dll  make exe    open the cmd  you can do it with right click with shift  in the folder that contains Makefile and run       make exe    done   Plus  you can add arguments after the command  such as      make exe skel

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I tried all of above  What helps me   Download the mingw-get  Setup it  Add something like this C  MinGW bin to environment variables  Launch   important  git bash  Power shell  developer vs cmd  system cmd etc did nt help  Type mingw-get into command line  After type mingw-get install mingw32-make  Copy and paste all files from C  MinGW bin to folder where your Makefile is  Done  Now You might be able to use make-commands in this folder

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I use MinGW tool set which provides mingw32-make 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  mingw32-make -f Makefile win  and it s done

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You can install GNU make with chocolatey  a well-maintained package manager  which will add make to the global path and runs on all CLIs  powershell  git bash  cmd  etc     saving you a ton of time in both maintenance and initial setup to get make running   Install the chocolatey package manager for Windows compatible to Windows 7    Windows Server 2003   Run choco install make   I am not affiliated with choco  but I highly recommend it  so far it has never let me down and I do have a talent for breaking software unintentionally

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Install msys2 with make dependency add both to PATH variable   The second option is GNU ToolChain for Windows  MinGW version has already mingw32-make included   Install Git Bash  Run mingw32-make from Git Bash

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So if you re using Vscode and Mingw then you should first make sure that the bin folder of the mingw is included in the environment path and it is preferred to change the mingw32-make exe to make to ease the task and then create a makefile and include this code in it   all      gcc -o filename filename c       filename  Then save the makefile and open Vscode Code terminal and write make  Then makefile will get executed

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