GNU make Installation

Owned by Eliot Muir
Last updated: Oct 04, 2021
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Check to see if you have GNU make installed by typing this at the command prompt:

make --version

You should see version of GNU make you are running.

Hopefully you do not have another non GNU make installed.

Linux and Mac OS C installation

For most linux distributions it comes pre-installed as part of the installation.

For Mac OS X, installing the X-Code command line tools will give you it.

Windows Installation

For Windows you will need to install make. I prefer just to install make by itself:

Then you’ll have to make sure that it’s added to your PATH variable so you can access it.

  • Select the folder which when installed contains the binary file

    • Something like “C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin”

    • It’s completely possible that they will change this path in the future - so check it.