Is make no longer included with MinGW and/or MSYS?

Question

I installed MinGW and MSYS on my Windows 7 computer. I added C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MinGW\\bin to my path. Commands such as gcc and g++

Answer 1

C:\Program files\xxx has spaces in it! Since shell scripts are involved, spaces are significant and have to be escaped. Hence this path will not work with mingw. The documentation recommends to install MingW in C:\MingW.

Answer 2

Yup, add the msys bin directory to your path (after MinGW's bin dir). That's exactly what the MinGW shell does and why it works there.

Answer 3

Try gmake. Sometimes the GNU version of Make installs itself as gmake in order to distinguish from non-GNU Make.