Does mingw32-make be renamed to make?

Question

I installed the latest mingw, and found there is no mingw32-make any more. There is make.exe, so I am wondering if mingw32-make is renamed to make.exe recently.

Answer 1

I don't know where you're getting MinGW from, but some distributions (like nuwen's) name it make.exe, and others name it mingw32-make.exe (or mingw32-make.exe).

I generally copy whichever one to the other, so I have identical mingw32-make.exe and make.exe in the bin directory. My understanding is the the name mingw32-make.exe is used to avoid conflicts with the make.exe in MSYS (see http://www.mingw.org/wiki/FAQ). I don't use MSYS, so having the program named make.exe is more convenient for me, but sometimes a build script will look specifically for mingw32-make.