Closed moorepants closed 9 years ago
Ok, I got a hold of a windows computer. I see what is happening. If you prepend the C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.2\bin
to the windows PATH then you can access Octave through the command line but it turns out there is a program named make
in the octave bin
, so when you type make
at the terminal it tries to run the octave make program instead of the one installed with msysgit/swcinstaller.
This shows which make is being accessed:
$ which make
/c/Octave/Octave-3.8.2/bin/make
If you prepend the swc bin directory to the PATH, i.e. in front of the Octave path, make works:
C:\Users\Jason\.swc\bin;C:\Octave\Octave-3.8.2\bin;...
@spinningplates
If you used the SWC installer it should install make, see:
https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/blob/master/swc-windows-installer.py#L8
Can you paste here what is printed to the screen when you type
make --version
in the git bash prompt on Windows?