Hi, On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Fitzy wrote: > Alright so I'm a complete newbie when it comes to anything linux related. > > And so I cannot figure out how make is supposed to work under cygwin, > even creating the simplest makefile produces > > "Error: 'g++' not found"
Did you actually run make? Was this the *exact message* you received? This is the error I get when I try to run a bogus program from make: make: g+++: Command not found Note that the makefile fragment you provided looks suspicious: it appears to contain seven spaces as the indentation of the g++ line, although I suspect it might have been mangled by gmail, otherwise you would have gotten a different error message from make. > > Which doesn't make much sense to me, given that I can run g++ from > the cygwin command line just fine.. (snip) > So are all the tutorials wrong online, or does my make just not work > correctly? It's more likely that you made a mistake somewhere or your Cygwin environment is not set up correctly. To help us diagnose the latter, please follow: > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html , especially http://www.cygwin.com/problems.html#cygcheck This will help us to understand what your Cygwin environment contains and how it's set up. Just for curiosity, try changing your makefile to the following and running make: all: which g++ g++ main.cpp -o test Hope this helps, Csaba -- GCS a+ e++ d- C++ ULS$ L+$ !E- W++ P+++$ w++$ tv+ b++ DI D++ 5++ The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers. Life is complex, with real and imaginary parts. "Ok, it boots. Which means it must be bug-free and perfect. " -- Linus Torvalds "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
