How to install and use make in Windows

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I m following the instructions of someone whose repository I cloned to my machine  What I want is simple  to be able to use the make command as part of setting up the code environment  But I m using Windows  and I searched online only to find a make exe file to download  a make-4 1 tar gz file to download  I don t know what to do with it next   and things about downloading MinGW  for GNU  but after installing it I didn t find any mention of  make      I don t want a GNU compiler or related stuff  I only want to use  make  in Windows  Please tell me what I should do to accomplish that   Thanks in advance

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Install npm install Node Install Make node install make up node install make if above commands displays any error then install Chocolatey choco  Open cmd and copy and paste the below command  command copied from chocolatey URL    quot  SystemRoot  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 powershell exe quot  -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command  quot   System Net ServicePointManager   SecurityProtocol   3072  iex   New-Object System Net WebClient  DownloadString  https   chocolatey org install ps1    quot   amp  amp  SET  quot PATH  PATH   ALLUSERSPROFILE  chocolatey bin quot

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If you re using Windows 10  it is built into the Linux subsystem feature  Just launch a Bash prompt  press the Windows key  then type bash and choose  Bash on Ubuntu on Windows    cd to the directory you want to make and type make   FWIW  the Windows drives are found in  mnt  e g  C   drive is  mnt c in Bash   If Bash isn t available from your start menu  here are instructions for turning on that Windows feature  64-bit Windows only    https   docs microsoft com en-us windows wsl install-win10

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Download make exe from their official site GnuWin32   In the Download session  click Complete package  except sources  Follow the installation instructions  Once finished  add the  lt installation directory gt  bin  to the PATH variable    Now you will be able to use make in cmd

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Another alternative is if you already installed minGW and added the bin folder the to Path environment variable  you can use  mingw32-make  instead of  make     You can also create a symlink from  make  to  mingw32-make   or copying and changing the name of the file  I would not recommend the options before  they will work until you do changes on the minGW

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Install Msys2 http   www msys2 org Follow installation instructions  Install make with   pacman -S make gettext base-devel Add C  msys64 usr bin  to your path

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GNU make is available on chocolatey    Install chocolatey from here  Then  choco install make    Now you will be able to use Make on windows  I ve tried using it on MinGW  but it should work on CMD as well

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The accepted answer is a bad idea in general because the manually created make exe will stick around and can potentially cause unexpected problems  It actually breaks RubyInstaller  https   github com oneclick rubyinstaller2 issues 105  An alternative is installing make via Chocolatey  as pointed out by  Vasantha Ganesh K   Another alternative is installing MSYS2 from Chocolatey and using make from C  tools msys64 usr bin  If make isn t installed automatically with MSYS2 you need to install it manually via pacman -S make  as pointed out by  Thad Guidry and  Luke

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One solution that may helpful if you want to use the command line emulator cmder    You can install the package installer chocately  First we install chocately in windows command prompt using the following line      SystemRoot  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0 powershell exe  -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command  iex   New-Object System Net WebClient  DownloadString  https   chocolatey org install ps1      amp  amp  SET  PATH  PATH   ALLUSERSPROFILE  chocolatey bin  refreshenv   After chocolatey is installed the choco command can be used to install make  Once installed  you will need add an alias to  cmder config user aliases cmd  The following line should be added   make  path to chocolatey chocolatey bin make exe       Make will then operate in the cmder environment

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make is a GNU command so the only way you can get it on Windows is installing a Windows version like the one provided by GNUWin32  Anyway  there are several options for getting that   Using MinGW  be sure you have C  MinGW bin mingw32-make exe  Otherwise you re missing the mingw32-make additional utilities  Look for the link at MinGW s HowTo page to get it installed  Once you ve got it  you have two choices    1 1 Copy the MinGW make executable to make exe  copy c  MinGW bin mingw32-make exe c  MinGW bin make exe   1 2 Create a link to the actual executable  in your PATH  In this case  if you update MinGW  the link is not deleted  mklink c  bin make exe C  MinGW bin mingw32-make exe     Other option is using Chocolatey  First you need to install this package manager  Once installed you simlpy need to install make  choco install make   Last option is installing a Windows Subsystem for Linux  WSL   so you ll have a Linux distribution of your choice embedded in Windows 10 where you ll be able to install make  gccand all the tools you need to build C programs

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I could suggest a step by step approach    Visit GNUwin Download the Setup Program Follow the instructions and install GNUWin  You should pay attention to the directory where your application is being installed   You will need it later1  Follow these instructions and add make to your environment variables  As I told you before  now it is time to know where your application was installed  FYI  The default directory is C  Program Files  x86  GnuWin32    Now  update the PATH to include the bin directory of the newly installed program  A typical example of what one might add to the path is      C  Program Files  x86  GnuWin32 bin

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