Make in Windows
Description of how to install and use Make in Windows OS.
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Description of how to install and use Make in Windows OS.
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There are several ways to install Make on Windows. In this tutorial we will use Git Bash because it is also needed for on Windows, so you might already have that if you followed the steps in . The steps follow the instructions detailed . After installing Git & Git Bash:
Go to .
Download make-4.4-without-guile-w32-bin.zip (get the version without guile).
Extract zip.
Copy the contents to your C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\ merging the folders, but do NOT overwrite/replace any existing files.
Commands are called differently in different environments, for example, if you want to run Stata in Git Bash terminal on Windows you should use StataMP-64, but stata on Mac and Linux. Aliases don't work well in our setting (as Make is run in Git Bash, but Make itself uses the sh shell). Although if you include an operation system detector part at the beginning of your Makefile, it provides a simple solution for a reproducible Makefile in different environments.
Let's create a project folder called trial/, where the codes can be run with a Makefile both on Windows and Mac or Linux. There should be 2 files in the folder: trial.do and Makefile. The trial.do creates a trial.log just to see and check whether Make runs correctly. The content of trail.do is the following:
You can copy the following content in your Makefile:
When you finished, open the Git Bash terminal, go to the trial/ folder where the trail.do and your Makefile is, and then run make.
Afterward, you should see the trial.log created by the Makefile.