Make for Windows

Make: GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs

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Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files. Make gets its knowledge of how to build your program from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files. When you write a program, you should write a makefile for it, so that it is possible to use Make to build and install the program.

Capabilities of Make

• Make enables the end user to build and install your package without knowing the details of how that is done — because these details are recorded in the makefile that you supply.
• Make figures out automatically which files it needs to update, based on which source files have changed. It also automatically determines the proper order for updating files, in case one non-source file depends on another non-source file. As a result, if you change a few source files and then run Make, it does not need to recompile all of your program. It updates only those non-source files that depend directly or indirectly on the source files that you changed.
• Make is not limited to any particular language. For each non-source file in the program, the makefile specifies the shell commands to compute it. These shell commands can run a compiler to produce an object file, the linker to produce an executable, ar to update a library, or TeX or Makeinfo to format documentation.
• Make is not limited to building a package. You can also use Make to control installing or deinstalling a package, generate tags tables for it, or anything else you want to do often enough to make it worth while writing down how to do it.

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If you download the Setup program of the package, any requirements for running applications, such as dynamic link libraries (DLL’s) from the dependencies as listed below under Requirements, are already included. If you download the package as Zip files, then you must download and install the dependencies zip file yourself. Developer files (header files and libraries) from other packages are however not included; so if you wish to develop your own applications, you must separately install the required packages.

Description	Download	Size	Last change	Md5sum
• Complete package, except sources	Setup	3384653	25 November 2006	8ae51379d1f3eef8360df4e674f17d6d
• Sources	Setup	1252948	25 November 2006	b896c02e3d581040ba1ad65024bbf2cd
• Binaries	Zip	495645	25 November 2006	3521948bc27a31d1ade0dcb23be16d49
• Dependencies	Zip	708206	25 November 2006	d370415aa924fa023411c4099ef84563
• Documentation	Zip	2470575	25 November 2006	43a07e449d4bab3eb3f31821640ecab7
• Sources	Zip	2094753	25 November 2006	8bed4cf17c5206f8094f9c96779be663

You can also download the files from the GnuWin32 files page.

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Как использовать GNU Make в Windows?

Я установил MinGW и MSYS, добавил C:\MinGW\bin в PATH , но я все еще не могу запустить Makefile в Windows cmd . Я хотел бы запустить cmd.exe и там введите, например, make all , но мой cmd говорит, что такой команды нет.

Что мне делать? Я не хочу использовать оболочку MSYS, это не главное. Любые идеи о том, как использовать GNU Make в Windows cmd, как я могу это сделать в Ubuntu? Меня не интересует Cygwin .

Вот как я получил его для работы:

Затем я могу открыть командную строку и набрать make:

Это означает, что он работает сейчас!

Я использую GNU Make из проекта GnuWin32, см. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/, но каких-то обновлений на некоторое время не было, поэтому я не уверен в этом статусе проекта.

Хотя этот вопрос старый, его все же задают многие, кто использует MSYS2.

Я начал использовать его в этом году, чтобы заменить CygWin, и я очень доволен.

Чтобы установить make , откройте оболочку MSYS2 и введите следующие команды:

Вы можете добавить папку приложения в свой путь из командной строки, используя:

setx PATH “% PATH%; c:\MinGW\bin”

Обратите внимание, что вам, вероятно, нужно будет открыть новое окно команд для изменения измененного параметра пути.

В качестве альтернативы, если вы просто хотите установить make, вы можете использовать диспетчер пакетов chocolatey для установки gnu make с помощью

choco install make -y

Это касается любых проблем с путями, которые могут у вас возникнуть.

user1594322 дал правильный ответ, но когда я попробовал это, я столкнулся с проблемами администратора/разрешения. Я смог скопировать “mingw32-make.exe” и вставить его, переопределив/обойдя проблемы администратора, а затем отредактировав копию в “make.exe”. На VirtualBox в гостях Win7.

Ответ пользователя 1594322 хороший, у меня сейчас работает (mingw64). Спасибо!

Хотя make сам по себе доступен как отдельный исполняемый файл ( gnuwin32.sourceforge.net пакет make ), его использование в надлежащей среде разработки означает использование msys2.

Git 2.24 (Q4 2019) показывает, что:

test-tool run-command : научиться управлять (частями) тестового набора

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin

Git для Windows переключается между циклами, предоставляя среду разработки, которая позволяет собирать Git и запускать его набор тестов.

Для этого вся система MSYS2, включая GNU make и GCC, предлагается как “Git для Windows SDK”.
Это имеет свою цену: первоначальная загрузка указанного SDK весит несколько сотен мегабайт, а распакованный SDK занимает

2 ГБ дискового пространства.

Гораздо более естественной средой разработки для Windows является Visual Studio. Чтобы помочь разработчикам использовать эту среду, у нас уже есть цель Makefile vcxproj , которая генерирует коммит с файлами проекта (и другими сгенерированными файлами), и ветвь vs/master Git for Windows непрерывно перегенерируется с использованием этой цели.

Идея состоит в том, чтобы позволить сборку Git в Visual Studio и запускать отдельные тесты с использованием Portable Git.

Gnu make для windows

GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files.

Make gets its knowledge of how to build your program from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files. When you write a program, you should write a makefile for it, so that it is possible to use Make to build and install the program.

Capabilities of Make

• Make enables the end user to build and install your package without knowing the details of how that is done — because these details are recorded in the makefile that you supply.
• Make figures out automatically which files it needs to update, based on which source files have changed. It also automatically determines the proper order for updating files, in case one non-source file depends on another non-source file.

As a result, if you change a few source files and then run Make, it does not need to recompile all of your program. It updates only those non-source files that depend directly or indirectly on the source files that you changed.

Make is not limited to any particular language. For each non-source file in the program, the makefile specifies the shell commands to compute it. These shell commands can run a compiler to produce an object file, the linker to produce an executable, ar to update a library, or TeX or Makeinfo to format documentation.

Make is not limited to building a package. You can also use Make to control installing or deinstalling a package, generate tags tables for it, or anything else you want to do often enough to make it worth while writing down how to do it.

Make Rules and Targets

A rule in the makefile tells Make how to execute a series of commands in order to build a target file from source files. It also specifies a list of dependencies of the target file. This list should include all files (whether source files or other targets) which are used as inputs to the commands in the rule.

Here is what a simple rule looks like:

When you run Make, you can specify particular targets to update; otherwise, Make updates the first target listed in the makefile. Of course, any other target files needed as input for generating these targets must be updated first.

Make uses the makefile to figure out which target files ought to be brought up to date, and then determines which of them actually need to be updated. If a target file is newer than all of its dependencies, then it is already up to date, and it does not need to be regenerated. The other target files do need to be updated, but in the right order: each target file must be regenerated before it is used in regenerating other targets.

Advantages of GNU Make

GNU Make has many powerful features for use in makefiles, beyond what other Make versions have. It can also regenerate, use, and then delete intermediate files which need not be saved.

GNU Make also has a few simple features that are very convenient. For example, the -o file option which says «pretend that source file file has not changed, even though it has changed.» This is extremely useful when you add a new macro to a header file. Most versions of Make will assume they must therefore recompile all the source files that use the header file; but GNU Make gives you a way to avoid the recompilation, in the case where you know your change to the header file does not require it.

However, the most important difference between GNU Make and most versions of Make is that GNU Make is free software.

Makefiles And Conventions

We have developed conventions for how to write Makefiles, which all GNU packages ought to follow. It is a good idea to follow these conventions in your program even if you don’t intend it to be GNU software, so that users will be able to build your package just like many other packages, and will not need to learn anything special before doing so.

Downloading Make

Make can be found on the main GNU ftp server: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ (via HTTP) and ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ (via FTP). It can also be found on the GNU mirrors; please use a mirror if possible.

Documentation

Documentation for Make is available online, as is documentation for most GNU software. You may also find more information about Make by running info make or man make, or by looking at /usr/share/doc/make/, /usr/local/doc/make/, or similar directories on your system. A brief summary is available by running make —help.

Mailing lists

Make has the following mailing lists:

• bug-make is used to discuss most aspects of Make, including development and enhancement requests, as well as bug reports.
• help-make is for general user help and discussion.

Announcements about Make and most other GNU software are made on info-gnu (archive).

Security reports that should not be made immediately public can be sent directly to the maintainer. If there is no response to an urgent issue, you can escalate to the general security mailing list for advice.

Getting involved

Development of Make, and GNU in general, is a volunteer effort, and you can contribute. For information, please read How to help GNU. If you’d like to get involved, it’s a good idea to join the discussion mailing list (see above).

Test releases Trying the latest test release (when available) is always appreciated. Test releases of Make can be found at http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/ (via HTTP) and ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/ (via FTP). Development For development sources, issue trackers, and other information, please see the Make project page at savannah.gnu.org. Translating Make To translate Make’s messages into other languages, please see the Translation Project page for Make. If you have a new translation of the message strings, or updates to the existing strings, please have the changes made in this repository. Only translations from this site will be incorporated into Make. For more information, see the Translation Project. Maintainer Make is currently being maintained by Paul Smith. Please use the mailing lists for contact.

Licensing

Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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How to install and use “make” in Windows?

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!

10 Answers 10

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:

The most simple choice is using Chocolatey. First you need to install this package manager. Once installed you simlpy need to install make (you may need to run it in an elevated/admin command prompt) :

Other recommended option is installing a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL/WSL2), so you’ll have a Linux distribution of your choice embedded in Windows 10 where you’ll be able to install make , gcc and all the tools you need to build C programs.

For older Windows versions (MS Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7 with msvcrt.dll) you can use GnuWin32.

An outdated alternative was MinGw, but the project seems to be abandoned so it’s better to go for one of the previous choices.