Hey guys I installed cygwin on my windows 7 just now With ALL THE PACKAGES (including make). But once i try to use the make command in cygwin it gives me error message: "bash: make: command not found". Wt is this? I deff installed all the packages that came with cygwin.
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I don't know whether Win7 is playing funnies with CygWin since I answered a question a couple of days ago where it appeared to have removed a DLL.
From the bash shell, execute echo $PATH and ensure that /bin is in there somewhere.
Make sure that you are running it from the CygWin bash shell rather than a cmd.exe window.
Check that make.exe exists under your \cygwin\bin directory (assuming you installed in \cygwin).
If it's not there, re-install (by that, I mean rename the directory and do a full install again, not use the reinstall from setup.exe) Check immediately after the install to see if it's there.
That's about all I can offer without further info. Let me know the results of those tasks and we can move on further if they don't pan out.
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Don't know if that helps or is still actual, but I had (years ago, Win XP) similar problems. Then I installed Qt, which came with an option to install CygWin during the installation process. This installation worked without any problems.
So if this is possible, maybe give a try going around your problems by simply letting the Qt installer handle it. (Even if you don't intend to use Qt)
