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I am trying to get Clang to work with VSCode. I've hit success on the terminal, but VSCode is still refusing to cooperate.
Clang on Windows by default targets x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, but the reason I'm using VSCode is I'm avoiding VS in the first place. The solution to this is to pass a target flag: --target=x86_64-w64-windows-gnu. This allows Clang to work with MinGW headers - on the terminal at least.
VSCode detects the presence of both Clang and MinGW-w64, and changing the Intellisense mode to windows-gcc-x64 allows it to work properly. However, changing the compiler path to Clang breaks Intellisense entirely - I've changed the Intellisense mode to windows-clang-x64 and windows-clang-x86, added a hard link at C:\MinGW and C:\mingw64 pointing at the MinGW installation, all to no avail. In all cases $PATH contains the MinGW bin directory, LLVM bin directory, and the MinGW hard link.
Any other ideas on what else I can try to get VSCode to recognize Clang?
Thank you for your time.
There is an easier why to install Clang on Windows without MSVC and it works with intellisense without problems.
go to https://www.msys2.org/ and install mysys2
then open mysys2 terminal and copy those commands to install Clang:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-clang
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-clang-tools-extra
dont forget to add msys64\mingw64\bin to the SYSTEM PATH variable
Now Intellisense should work
I have also made a video about it if you want to check it : https://youtu.be/5OSO8IRlyXc
I have both CMake 3.18.1 and Cygwin installed on my local machine. However, every time I try to use CMake within the command prompt it keeps bombing. I have a feeling that Cygwin's own built-in version of CMake is messing with things. Is there any way to untie Cygwin's access just to the command prompt so that I can use CMake there?
Thanks!
I'm following the instructions of someone whose repository I cloned to my machine. I want to use the make command as part of setting up the code environment, but I'm using Windows. I searched online, but I could only find a make.exe file, a make-4.1.tar.gz file (I don't know what to do with it next) and instructions for how to download MinGW (for GNU; but after installing it I didn't find any mention of "make").
How do I use make in Windows without a GNU compiler or related packages?
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) :
choco install make
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, gccand 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.
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.
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).
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://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
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 <installation directory>/bin/ to the PATH variable.
Now you will be able to use make in cmd.
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
On windows 10 or 11, you can run the command winget install GnuWin32.Make in the command line or powershell to quickly install it. Than you can use the command cmake.
There is no need to install choco anymore.
The chances are that besides GNU make, you'll also need many of the coreutils. Touch, rm, cp, sed, test, tee, echo and the like. The build system might require bash features, if for nothing else, it's popular to create temp file names from the process ID ($$$$). That won't work without bash. You can get everything with the popular POSIX emulators for Windows:
Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.org/) Probably the most popular one and the most compatible with POSIX. Has some difficulties with Windows paths and it's slow.
GNUWin (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) It was good and fast but now abandoned. No bash provided, but it's possible to use it from other packages.
ezwinports (https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports) My current favorite. Fast and works well. There is no bash provided with it, that can be a problem for some build systems. It's possible to use make from ezwinports and bash from Cygwin or MSYS2 as a workaround.
MSYS 1.19 abandoned. Worked well but featured very old make (3.86 or so)
MSYS2 (https://www.msys2.org/) Works well, second fastest solution after ezwinports. Good quality, package manager (pacman), all tooling available. I'd recommend this one.
MinGW abandoned? There was usually MSYS 1.19 bundled with MinGW packages, that contained an old make.exe. Use mingw32-make.exe from the package, that's more up to date.
Note that you might not be able to select your environment. If the build system was created for Cygwin, it might not work in other environments without modifications (The make language is the same, but escaping, path conversion are working differently, $(realpath) fails on Windows paths, DOS bat files are started as shell scripts and many similar issues). If it's from Linux, you might need to use a real Linux or WSL.
If the compiler is running on Linux, there is no point in installing make for Windows, because you'll have to run both make and the compiler on Linux. In the same way, if the compiler is running on Windows, WSL won't help, because in that environment you can only execute Linux tools, not Windows executables. It's a bit tricky!
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
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.
I once had the same problem. But I am surprised not to find one particular solution here.
Installation from GnuWin32 or via winget are good and easy options. But I only found make 3.8.1 there. This version lacks the very important option -O, which handles the output correctly when compiling multithreaded.
choco appears to offer make 4.3, currently. So one could expect recent versions there.
But there is also the option of self compiling. And if you have to install make, which is used for compiling, this should be a valid option.
head to https://www.gnu.org/software/make/ and download a version of your liking
unpack the tar.gz files (use 7zip and unpack the file twice to retrieve the actual content)
navigate to the created directory
open command prompt in that directory
run build_w32.bat gcc This will start the compilation with the gcc compiler, which you would need to install in advance. When running build_w32.bat without any option they try to use the MSVC compiler. Sidenote: I found it surprising that gnu does not use gcc as default but MSVC :-)
ignore the warnings created during compilation. The result should still be fine
retrieve your fresh gnumake.exe from the directoy GccRel (when compiled with gcc)
put this file somewhere where you like and rename to make.exe
add the location to the system variable %PATH%
As others have noted: This manual installation might cause conflicts if you have various make versions installed by other programs as well.
You can also install scoop, then run:
scoop install make
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'))" && 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.
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)
#"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command " [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
I have installed Cygwin on my system. But when I try to use the gcc command it says:
bash: gcc: command not found
Can anyone provide me the solution, please?
In my installation there was no generic gcc command either, so I made a symlink for it:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s i686-pc-cygwin-gcc-3.4.4.exe gcc
Now check if it worked by doing which gcc which should give you /usr/bin/gcc and then gcc should give you gcc: no input files. Note that your version of i686-pc-cygwin-gcc-3.4.4.exe may be different. Check in /usr/bin for it.
Maybe during installation of Cygwin you have not selected gcc, gdb and make packages.
I had the same problem and it was resolved after I selected above-mentioned packages.
A couple of things:
I always install the whole Cygwin package. Earlier versions had troubles with dependencies that are fixed now, I believe, but it's still a good habit. You never know when you may need the most esoteric bit of Cygwin.
You may have to change your path. All the tools can generally be found okay if you're running inside the Cygwin bash shell but that's not necessarily the case from cmd.exe.
It's unlikely to be that last one since your error message is coming from bash itself, so I'm pretty certain that's how you're running it.
Have a look to make sure you have /usr/bin/gcc from within bash and that your path includes /usr/bin somewhere:
pax> echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS
pax> which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
If it's not there, go back and re-install everything (or the relevant development package if you don't want everything). If it is there and your path doesn't have its location, change your path, in either /etc/profile or the equivalent in your home directory.
Another related issue that wasn't mentioned here, is from the command line the compiler needs the environment path variable updated to find the location of the c++ header files. In windows you can just update the path environment using the 'advanced system properties' GUI and add the location of the c++ include files. This will update the PATH environment variable in Windows cmd & Cygwin automatically upon restarting the shell.
To update your PATH from Linux or the Cygwin shell type... PATH=$PATH:/your_path_here Example:PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.7.3/include/c++ Also a good idea to add just the include directory as well: PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/cygwin/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.7.3/include/ ...or check the proper directories for the location of your installation's include files, I recommend installing mingw for use with Cygwin, which is envoked with g++.
To install additional needed packages in Cygwin re-run the Cygwin install utility & check install from Internet to add packages from web repositories and add mingw-gcc-g++ & mingw-binutils. To compile your code: g++ hello.cpp -o hello
If using the gcc utility instead compile with the command: gcc hello.cpp -o hello -lstdc++ ... to get your executable.
As long as you have either gcc or mingw installed and the path to the c++ include files is in your path environment, the commands will work.
There is another hard to spot mistake could also cause this error,
If your Makefile uses PATH as variable, the gcc not found error could happen.
This is because it changes the system path temporarily.
I took a lot of time checking the cygwin environment setting to discover this, so I'll leave it here in case this helps anyone finding their way here.
I have some demos that I downloaded and they come with a Makefile.win and a Makefile.sgi. How can I run these in Windows to compile the demos?
You can install GNU make with chocolatey, a well-maintained package manager, which will add make to the global path and runs on all CLIs (powershell, git bash, cmd, etc…) saving you a ton of time in both maintenance and initial setup to get make running.
Install the chocolatey package manager for Windows
compatible to Windows 7+ / Windows Server 2003+
Run choco install make
I am not affiliated with choco, but I highly recommend it, so far it has never let me down and I do have a talent for breaking software unintentionally.
If you have Visual Studio, run the Visual Studio Command prompt from the Start menu, change to the directory containing Makefile.win and type this:
nmake -f Makefile.win
You can also use the normal command prompt and run vsvars32.bat (c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools for VS2008). This will set up the environment to run nmake and find the compiler tools.
Check out GnuWin's make (for windows), which provides a native port for Windows (without requiring a full runtime environment like Cygwin)
If you have winget, you can install via the CLI like this:
winget install GnuWin32.Make
Also, be sure to add the install path to your system PATH:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin
Check out cygwin, a Unix alike environment for Windows
Here is my quick and temporary way to run a Makefile
download make from SourceForge: gnuwin32
install it
go to the install folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin
copy the all files in the bin to the folder that contains Makefile
libiconv2.dll libintl3.dll make.exe
open the cmd (you can do it with right click with shift) in the folder that contains Makefile and run
make.exe
done.
Plus, you can add arguments after the command, such as
make.exe skel
If you install Cygwin. Make sure to select make in the installer. You can then run the following command provided you have a Makefile.
make -f Makefile
https://cygwin.com/install.html
I use MinGW tool set which provides mingw32-make build tool, if you have it in your PATH system variables, in Windows Command Prompt just go into the directory containing the files and type this command:
mingw32-make -f Makefile.win
and it's done.
I tried all of the above. What helps me:
Download the mingw-get.
Setup it.
Add something like this C:\MinGW\bin to environment variables.
Launch (!important) git bash. Power shell, developer vs cmd, system cmd etc didn't help.
Type mingw-get into the command line.
After type mingw-get install mingw32-make.
Done! Now You might be able to use make-commands from any folder that contains Makefile.
With Visual Studio 2017 I had to add this folder to my Windows 10 path env variable:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX64\x64
There's also HostX86
If it is a "NMake Makefile", that is to say the syntax and command is compatible with NMake, it will work natively on Windows. Usually Makefile.win (the .win suffix) indicates it's a makefile compatible with Windows NMake. So you could try nmake -f Makefile.win.
Often standard Linux Makefiles are provided and NMake looks promising. However, the following link takes a simple Linux Makefile and explains some fundamental issues that one may encounter. It also suggests a few alternatives to handling Linux Makefiles on Windows.
Makefiles in Windows
Firstly, add path of visual studio common tools (c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools) into the system path. To learn how to add a path into system path, please check this website:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm. You just need to this once.
After that, whenever you need, open a command line and execute vsvars32.bat to add all required visual studio tools' paths into the system path.
Then, you can call nmake -f makefile.mak
PS: Path of visual studio common tools might be different in your system. Please change it accordingly.
I tried with cygwin & gnuwin, and didn't worked for me, I guess because the makefile used mainly specific linux code.
What it worked was use Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10. This is a Marvel if you come from MAC as it is my case:
To install the Ubuntu Bash: https://itsfoss.com/install-bash-on-windows/
Once in the console, to install make simply type "make" and it gives the instructions to download it.
Extras:
Useful enable copy / paste on bash: Copy Paste in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
In my case the make called Maven, so I have to install it as well: https://askubuntu.com/questions/722993/unable-to-locate-package-maven
To access windows filesystem C: drive, for example: "cd /mnt/c/"
Hope it helps
Install msys2 with make dependency add both to PATH variable.
(The second option is GNU ToolChain for Windows. MinGW version has already mingw32-make included.)
Install Git Bash. Run mingw32-make from Git Bash.
If you have already installed the Windows GNU compiler (MinGW) from MSYS2 then make command comes pre-installed as wingw32-make. Always match cmake makefile generation with the correct make command. Mixing these generate problems.
MinGW makefile generation with MinGW make command
Visual Studio makefile generation with VS equivalent make command
And this is always possible as long as you have the source code. Just delete old build directory and start over by specifying this time the right parameter in cmake ,e.g.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "MinGW MakeFiles" path/to/src/whereCMakeLists.txtInstructionsAre
mingw32-make
myProject.exe # RUN
I have encountered issues during compilation where multiple make commands interact. To prevent this just edit/remove the environmental variables that lead to different make commands. For example to prevent conflicts with mingw, keep only C:\msys64\mingw64\bin but remove C:\msys64\usr\bin. That other path contains the msys make and as I said you do not want to combine make commands during compilation.
Download from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/
Set the variable path in advance setting for recognize in command prompt (C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin)
So if you're using Vscode and Mingw then you should first make sure that the bin folder of the mingw is included in the environment path and it is preferred to change the mingw32-make.exe to make to ease the task and then create a makefile
and include this code in it .
all:
gcc -o filename filename.c
./filename
Then save the makefile and open Vscode Code terminal and write make. Then makefile will get executed.
I am assuming you added mingw32/bin is added to environment variables else please add it and I am assuming it as gcc compiler and you have mingw installer.
First step: download mingw32-make.exe from mingw installer, or please check mingw/bin folder first whether mingw32-make.exe exists or not, else than install it, rename it to make.exe.
After renaming it to make.exe, just go and run this command in the directory where makefile is located. Instead of renaming it you can directly run it as mingw32-make.
After all, a command is just exe file or a software, we use its name to execute the software, we call it as command.
For me installing ubuntu WSL on windows was the best option, that is the best tool for compiling makefile on windows. One thousand is better than Cygwin64, because to compile a makefile you will need another package and compile software like maybe gfortran, netcdf, etc, ect, in ubuntu WSL you can install all of these packages very easily and quickly ;)
The procedure I followed is;
I installed Gnuwin32's make using the installable.
Added the "make" path to the environmental variable PATH.
Verified the installation using "make --version"
Go to http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm and download make-3.81.exe, install and add to Windows path.
May be it can work.
pip install Makefile