On 5/22/09 3:18 PM, "Jonathan Kulp" <jonlancek...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>> Jonathan Kulp wrote:
>>> Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>>>>> This is a good idea, Carl. I wouldn't mind trying it myself. My son's
>>>>> laptop has XP on one partition but I don't know if I'll be able to get
>>>>> on there and try this out. I'd be a good one to try it, though,
>>>>> because
>>>>> I'm totally clueless on Windows, and if I can get it working then
>>>>> anybody could. :)
>>>>
>>>> I think you'd be perfect, Jon, because
>>>> a) You are interested
>>>> b) You know the makefile
>>>> c) You don't know Windows
>>>>
>>>> Carl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Initial efforts are fruitless. I installed GNUMake on the XP
>>> partition, but when I type the command "make" in the dos shell, it
>>> says there's no such program. I tried "Make" and "make.exe" as well
>>> with the same results. I have no idea what to try next because
>>> there's hardly anything about running it on Windows in the
>>> documentation. I'll check more on it later. I find it exhausting
>>> even to spend a few minutes using Windows...
>>>
>> It sounds as if you have to include it in PATH environment variable
>> (Right click on "My Computer", choose the Advanced tab and click on
>> Environment variables). I'm sure you know more than most Windows users
>> about how to set PATH, just remember to use semicolon instead of comma
>> to separate the paths.
>>
>> /Mats
>>> Jon
>>
>>
> I suspected a PATH issue and found this solution on a website somewhere
> and did it. Now I can run the "make" command, but it's telling me
> there's no rule for the target I selected. I know very well that
> there's a rule since it works perfectly on Linux, so I'm going to try
> simplifying it to see if I can make it run.
You may want to make sure you have the right make:
which make
make --version
Carl
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