Calling an executable by a different name

Question

I installed QT for windows, and it uses mingw. There it has this mingw32-make, but I would like to be able to just call make whenever I want to use it.. as it is rather long to type that. Anyone know how to do this?

I know I can make a copy of mingw32-make, and rename it make in order to get something to work, but that is just so lame. Is there a more elegant way.

Ted.

Answer 1

Create a batch file on your PATH (I put mine in c:\MinGW\bin) called make.bat with the following contents:

mingw32-make %*

The %* enables you to pass arguments to the mingw32-make command.

Thanks to a2j for pointing me in the right direction here.