Where is make on msys4/mingw-w64?

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On msys2, installed the mingw-w64 toolchain. Can run gcc from MINGW64 shell, but not make. pacman claims mingw-w64-x86_64-make is installed. What gives?

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pacman -S -yy mingw-w64-x86_64-make-4.2.1-2 reeports reinstall successful, still bash says make: command not found - Thomas Sharpless

2 Answers

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The answer is simple but not obvious. They distribute mingw32-make.exe and expect you to symlink it by hand. Typical *nix-think.

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Your PATH directories may not be set correctly.

This thread may help.