Tink has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Supposedly make comes with the standard installation of cygwin, but when I try to install modules it seems that it doesn't exist. Where can I get make for Windows/Cygwin??

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Re: running make in cygwin
by ysth (Canon) on Jul 30, 2004 at 18:31 UTC
    make does not come by default. Run http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and select the make package (in the Devel category).

    Just as a guess, you may want to install gcc also.

Re: running make in cygwin
by Plankton (Vicar) on Jul 30, 2004 at 18:31 UTC
Re: running make in cygwin
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jul 30, 2004 at 18:33 UTC
    Personally, I always install everything whenever I install cygwin. But, that's just me. :-)

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    We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

    Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose

    I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

      dragonchild,
      I have a full install of everything myself which I update daily. People should be aware that this takes a bit of bandwidth to download and fair amount of free disk space to extract it all. My current Cygwin directory is over 3GB.

      Cheers - L~R

      Update: To be clear, this is an FYI and isn't to discourage anyone from installing everything - just giving them a head's up
        Which means it cost you less than US$3, plus bandwidth (which is usually paid for on a monthly basis, regardless of transferred amount). Personally, unless I'm administrating a database server, I usually have no idea how big my hard-drive is. I have no clue how big the drive in the laptop I'm typing this on is - only that I haven't had space issues and never expect any.

        ------
        We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

        Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose

        I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

Re: running make in cygwin
by CloneArmyCommander (Friar) on Jul 30, 2004 at 20:33 UTC
    I usually have success when I Google "UNIX utils for DOS".