Windows 10 - 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

Saw previous answers on the subject, but wasn't able to get the solutions working fully myself. Trying to run code I pulled off Github from David R. Miller regarding his evolutionary neural network simulation software. Running Windows 10 and get the following error when attempting to run the provided makefile:

'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

To be specific, I open the command window, cd to the folder where I saved the makefile, and type "make," "make all," and other variations. In looking at Google and other Stack Overflow answers I verified I have GnuWin32 in my program files (x86) folder and added the makefile directory as a path variable:

Not particularly familiar with windows systems or systems configurations in general so tracking I may be lacking something else.

Any ideas what I'm missing?

Github source code: https://github.com/davidrmiller/biosim4

Previous answer referenced: Windows 7 - 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Answer 1

If your make executable is in C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin, add it to your path.

The purpose of "add path" is for convenience for your later use.

Assume your make executable is located in C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/make.

Before you add the path you need to call:

C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/bin/make

After you add the path you need to call:

make

[Note]

If you are familiar with programming in Linux, I highly recommend msys2.

It provide a package manager pacman that you can easily update your tool chain and libraries. (g++, make, cmake, etc)