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csu-hmc / perturbed-data-paper

A paper on an elaborate gait data set.
https://peerj.com/articles/918/
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Make doesn't run on Windows #167

Closed moorepants closed 9 years ago

moorepants commented 9 years ago

@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?

moorepants commented 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
moorepants commented 9 years ago

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;...