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MINGW64 "make build" error: "bash: make: command not found"

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What is git bash MINGW64?

MINGW64 is the new icon being used with Git for Windows 2. x The MINGW64 is the value from the MSYSTEM environment variable. This has been included in the bash prompt by setting PS1 in the /etc/bash. bashrc file. You can either override this in your own $HOME/.

What is make command?

The make command uses information from a description file, which you create, to build a file containing the completed program, which is then called a target file. Internal rules for the make program. The internal rules for the make command are located in a file that looks like a description file.


  • Go to ezwinports, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

  • Download make-4.2.1-without-guile-w32-bin.zip (get the version without guile)

  • Extract zip
  • Copy the contents to C:\ProgramFiles\Git\mingw64\ merging the folders, but do NOT overwrite/replace any exisiting files.

You can also use Chocolatey.

Having it installed, just run:

choco install make

When it finishes, it is installed and available in Git for Bash / MinGW.


You have to install mingw-get and after that you can run mingw-get install msys-make to have the command make available.

Here is a link for what you want http://www.mingw.org/wiki/getting_started