Windows 7 - 'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Question

I have Windows 7 and tried to use the \'make\' command but \'make\' is not recognized as an internal or external command.

I did Start -> cmd -> run ->

Answer 1

As other answers already suggested, you must have MinGW installed. The additional part is to add the following two folders to the PATH environment variable.

• C:\MinGW\bin
• C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin

Obviously, adjust the path based on where you installed MinGW. Also, dont forget to open a new command line terminal.