325 GNU Make is available on Chocolatey. Install Chocolatey from here. Then, choco install make. Now you will be able to use Make on Windows. I've tried using it on MinGW, but it …

Make is not designed to pass arguments to a target. All arguments on the command line are interpreted either as a goal (a.k.a. target), as an option, or as a variable assignment.

Automatic variables are set by make after a rule is matched. They provide access to elements from the target and prerequisite lists so you don’t have to explicitly specify any filenames.

Aug 16, 2016 · Please don't get confused with the earlier answers saying recursive call. $MAKE is the default variable which gets replaced with "make". And in your scenario, $MAKE is used in …

Dec 22, 2011 · For those curious about why you might do this, it is useful if you want to pretend like something was done, so that Make doesn't output "Nothing to be done for" your target.

Suppose you have two files named makefile and Makefile in the same directory then makefile is executed if make alone is given. You can even pass arguments to makefile.

You can install GNU make with chocolatey or scoop, a well-maintained package managers, which will add make to the global path and runs on all CLIs (powershell, git bash, cmd, etc…) saving …