

The accepted answer to this very similar question: How to use makefiles on Windows, suggests to use Cygwin. For now I would like to get make itself working in the first place.Ī bit of research revealed two possibilities: I am aware that I will also have to install programs that make will call, such as, say, g++ or pdflatex, but that'll be for later. However I could not find whether it is possible to install make in PowerShell. I am currently forced to use Windows, and so as to be able to use this OS I configured and enhanced the "PowerShell" (by installing some additional programs, such as vim or svn, a module called PSReadLine, writing a PowerShell profile, etc.). Makefiles contain directives to build these projects using the command make. Open a terminal by searching for it with spotlight, cmd + spacebar then type terminal and press Return when it appears.Under Linux, sources of projects commonly come with Makefile's.

Alternatively, type "environment variable" (Dutch: omgevingsvariabelen) in your Windows 10 search menu, and press Enter. Go to "Properties" and select the tab "Advanced System settings". Open the settings for environment variables We need to update our PATH settings these settings are a set of directories that Windows uses to “look up” software to startup. Making make available via the PATH settings on Windows. Watch our YouTube video, in which we walk you through the setup on Windows. We will install make so that it plays nicely with your Anaconda/Python distribution and the Windows command line. We will use make to automate the execution of our projects with a “single click”, so that our entire work flow is reproducible.

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