Windows 7 - make is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file

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I have Windows 7 and tried to use the  make  command but  make  is not recognized as an internal or external command   I did Start - gt  cmd - gt  run - gt  make  which outputs       make  is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file    Then I typed  mingw32-make  instead of  make   Start - gt  cmd - gt  run - gt  mingw32-make  and I get the same output       mingw32-make  is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file    What shall I do next in order to fix this problem

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Your problem is most likely that the shell does not know where to find your make program. If you want to use it from "anywhere", then you must do this, or else you will need to add the full path each time you want to call it, which is quite cumbersome. For instance:

"c:\program files\gnuwin32\bin\make.exe" option1=thisvalue option2=thatvalue

This is to be taken as an example, it used to look like something like this on XP, I can't say on W7. But gnuwin32 used to provide useful "linux-world" packages for Windows. Check details on your provider for make.

So to avoid entering the path, you can add the path to your PATH environment variable. You will find this easily. To make sure it is registered by the OS, open a console (run cmd.exe) and entering $PATH should give you a list of default pathes. Check that the location of your make program is there.

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As other answers already suggested  you must have MinGW installed  The additional part is to add the following two folders to the PATH environment variable    C  MinGW bin C  MinGW msys 1 0 bin   Obviously  adjust the path based on where you installed MinGW  Also  dont forget to open a new command line terminal

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First make sure you have MinGW installed  From MinGW installation manager check if you have the mingw32-make package installed  Check if you have added the MinGW bin folder to your PATH  type PATH in your command line and look for the folder  Or on windows 10 go to Control Panel System and Security System -- gt  Advanced system settings -- gt  Environment Variables -- gt  System Variables find Path variable  select  Edit and check if it is there  If not just add it  As explained here  create a new file in any of your PATH folders  For example create mingwstartup bat in the MinGW bin folder  write the line doskey make mingw32-make exe inside  save and close it  open Registry Editor by running regedit  As explained here in HKEY LOCAL MACHINE or HKEY CURRENT USER go to  Software Microsoft Command Processor right click on the right panel New -- gt  Expandable String Value and name it AutoRun  double click and enter the path to your  bat file as the Value data  e g   quot C  MinGW bin mingwstartup bat quot   the result should look like this    now every time you open a new terminal make command will run the mingw32-make exe  I hope it helps  P S  If you don t want to see the commands of the  bat file to be printed out to the terminal put  echo off at the top of the batch file

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For window-10 resolved error- make  is not recognized as an internal or external command   Download MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows from here https   sourceforge net projects mingw   install it  While installation mark all basic setup packages like shown in image   Apply changes   After completion of installation copy C  MinGW bin paste in system variable   Open MyComputer properties and follow as shown in image  You may also need to install this  https   sourceforge net projects gnuwin32

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Search for make exe using the search feature  when found  note down the absolute path to the file  You can do that by right-clicking on the filename in the search result and then properties  or open location folder  not sure of the exact wording  I m not using an English locale    When you open the command line console  cmd  instead of typing make  type the whole path and name  e g  C  Windows System32 java  this is for java       Alternatively  if you don t want to provide the full path each time  then you have to possibilities    make C  Windows System32  the current working directory  using cd at cmd level  add C  Windows System32  to you PATH environment variable    Refs    use full path  http   technet microsoft com en-us magazine ff678296 aspx cd  http   technet microsoft com en-us library cc731237 aspx PATH  http   technet microsoft com en-us library bb490963 aspx

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try download  amp  run my bat code       run  cmd  as admin 2 use  setx       setx scoop  quot C  Users username  scoop quot   M echo  scoop   setx scoopApps  quot  scoop  apps quot   M  echo  scoopApps   scoop install make          Phase 3  Create the makePath environment variable    setx makePath  quot  scoopApps  make quot   M  echo  makePath   setx makeBin  quot  makePath  Bin quot   M  echo  makeBin   setx Path  quot  Path   makeBin  quot   M   echo  Path

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use mingw32-make instead of cmake in windows

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If you already have MinGW installed in Windows 7  just simply do the following    Make another copy of C  MinGW bin mingw32-make exe file in the same folder  Rename the file name from mingw32-make exe to make exe  Run make command again    Tested working in my laptop for above steps

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I am using windows 8  I had the same problem  I added the path  C  MinGW bin  to system environment variable named  path  then it worked  May be  you can try the same  Hope it ll help

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In Windows10  I solved this issue by adding  C  MinGW bin  to Path then called it using MinGW32-make not make

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This is an old question  but none of the answers here provide enough context for a beginner to choose which one to pick   What is make   make is a traditional Unix utility which reads a Makefile to decide what programs to run to reach a particular goal  Typically  that goal is to build a single piece of software  but make is general enough to be used for various other tasks  too  like assembling a PDF from a collection of TeX source files  or retrieving the newest versions of each of a set of web pages   Besides encapsulating the steps to reach an individual target  make reduces processing time by avoiding to re-execute steps which are already complete  It does this by comparing time stamps between dependencies  if A depends on B but A is newer than B  there is no need to make A  Of course  in order for this to work properly  the Makefile needs to document all such dependencies   A  B     commands to produce A from B   Notice that the indentation needs to consist of a literal tab character  This is a common beginner mistake   Common Versions of make  The original make was rather pedestrian  Its lineage continues to this day into BSD make  from which nmake is derived  Roughly speaking  this version provides the make functionality defined by POSIX  with a few minor enhancements and variations   GNU make  by contrast  significantly extends the formalism  to the point where a GNU Makefile is unlikely to work with other versions  or occasionally even older versions of GNU make   There is a convention to call such files GNUmakefile instead of Makefile  but this convention is widely ignored  especially on platforms like Linux where GNU make is the de facto standard make   Telltale signs that a Makefile uses GNU make conventions are the use of    instead of   for variable assignments  though this is not exclusively a GNU feature  and a plethora of functions like   shell         foreach         patsubst      etc   So Which Do I Need   Well  it really depends on what you are hoping to accomplish   If the software you are hoping to build has a vcproj file or similar  you probably want to use that instead  and not try to use make at all   In the general case  MinGW make is a Windows port of GNU make for Windows  It should generally cope with any Makefile you throw at it   If you know the software was written to use nmake and you already have it installed  or it is easy for you to obtain  maybe go with that   You should understand that if the software was not written for  or explicitly ported to  Windows  it is unlikely to compile without significant modifications  In this scenario  getting make to run is the least of your problems  and you will need a good understanding of the differences between the original platform and Windows to have a chance of pulling it off yourself   In some more detail  if the Makefile contains Unix commands like grep or curl or yacc then your system needs to have those commands installed  too  But quite apart from that  C or C    or more generally  source code in any language  which was written for a different platform might simply not work - at all  or as expected  which is often worse  - on Windows

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make  is a command for UNIX Linux  Instead of it  use  nmake  command in MS Windows  Or you d better use an emulator like CYGWIN

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