Sphinx: make command not found

[christinepham]

Hi,

So I downloaded sphinx and ran sphinx-build which gave me the Makefile and make.bat file. But when I run 'make' I get told that it's not found. I'm using a git shell on a Window's machine. Thanks in advance!

[frenetic]

Hello o/
At first, did you try running the make.bat from the Windows CMD? (not the git bash).

If this doesn't work, you can try downloading the make for your bash.
Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS/Base/make.
There you will find 3 different versions, try downloading the newest first.
To download, click on the folder, which will lead you to a new page. Look for the file that has the BIN on the description, for example: make-3.81-3-msys-1.0.13-bin.tar.lzma
Download it and extract the make.exe from it (7zip is a good tool for that).
Move the make.exe to the bin folder inside of your git instalation. Probably it will be on C:\Program Files (x86)\Git.
After moving the make.exe to the bin folder, close all of your git bashes.
Open a new one and try the make command.
If it doesnt work, try downloading a older versions of the make.

Note: remember to close all of your git bashes before openning a new one to try the make command.

I hope it works.

[birkenfeld]

As @frenetic said, you'll either have to use Windows' cmd shell to use the make.bat file, or install a GNU make program for use in the Git bash. The Git bash cannot execute Windows batch files.

[richardwang96]

按这个教程https://blog.csdn.net/nicholas_liu2017/article/details/78323391 直接安装WinGW，再把make拷出来也可以

[Rattanpal1]

Just add environment variable

C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin

Thats All.

Cheers,
Ranjit