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I have cygwin installed and want to run make on a Makefile. I have make installed: GNU Make 4.0

I navigate to the dir with the Makefile in it and run make. As soon as I do it dispalys:

User@Computer ~/c/Users/Name/Documents/GitHub/Project/build/CMakeFiles
$make
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.xxxx]
Copyright........ All rights reserved.

My text has also changed to white and it seems to resemble the default 'cmd' style, rather than the cygwin one. Typing make install does the same. I have to reset my terminal to revert to the default cygwin style.

maffo
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  • Not 100% surre but i think you need the (-f) after make eg (make -f filenaname) --- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8110231/makefile-on-cygwin -- http://linux.die.net/man/1/make – Tasos Sep 27 '14 at 23:21
  • Tried using the (-f) but didnt work, the same issue happens. Thanks for the links though! – maffo Sep 28 '14 at 00:51

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I believe the answer is in MinGW32 make command on windows.

If you use cmake ... -G "MinGW Makefiles" you will need to call mingw32-make.

I've got almost exactly the same problem. what i did was simply close my cygwin window, open a windows terminal, called "mingw32-make.exe" under the folder with Makefile, in your case it will be under "~/c/Users/Name/Documents/GitHub/Project/build/CMakeFiles" folder

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