Make not finding commands

[cobalt pelican]

I've been trying to use makefiles on win for a while now, and it always doesn't work (that's why I'm using just)
even if just trying to make a simple sdl window, it doesn't like it, it always shows that similar error

btw, that message in the end means "system could not find given program" but I do have mkdir (even on cmd, I've clink with autoinject)

On just, I can just change the shell, but even then, it works with the default shell (aka cmd) as shown on the 2nd image

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[cobalt pelican]

build: build-folders
    gcc -o ./bin/main -I./SDL3/include/ -L./SDL3/lib/ main.c -lSDL3
    cp ./SDL3/bin/SDL3.dll ./bin

build-folders:
    mkdir ./bin
```That's the whole makefile, btw

[split heron]

sounds like the path in your first shell doesn't have a directory that the path in your second shell does

a short explanation of what the $PATH environment variable is: most, if not all, shells ship with very few commands actually internal to the shell itself (otherwise known as "builtins" because they're built in to the shell). to run commands that are not builtins, the shell refers to the $PATH variable, which is a string containing paths to various directories, separated by a colon (:). on unix-like systems, the minimal $PATH is usually /bin:/usr/bin, before the user and various programs extend it. anytime the shell receives input, it first parses the line, then (usually) runs the first token as a command. if the command is not a builtin, it then searches through each directory in the $PATH, starting with the first, to find a match. if none is found, then and only then do you get something like a "command not found" error

[sturdy condor]

I know Make works in MSYS2. Maybe try that?

[cobalt pelican]

they're both running the same commands

[cobalt pelican]

no thx, that's way too much

I like my memory, lol

[sturdy condor]

I don't say to keep using it (if you don't want to). At least you could compare your configuration with what they have

For starters, is it only mkdir that fails? Does gcc ... command work?

[stable mesa]

I can't read your Portuguese error messages, but maybe it's the make command your computer doesn't know?

[cobalt pelican]

I've said it on the first message, it says "system could not find given program"

which doesn't work, since if make doesn't recognize it, neither should just

[stable mesa]

Yeah, but I can't tell what "given program" your computer is complaining about since you never specified that, and I can't read Portuguese

[cobalt pelican]

it's in the createprocess, there is no commands on the portuguese part

it's not finding mkdir, I think

[stable mesa]

aight, then I was wrong. Just checking though

[split heron]

yes. and the $PATH is unique to each shell. doesn't matter WTF the commands are if the shell can't find them

[cobalt pelican]

it's the same shell, just uses cmd by default

so does make

[split heron]

could you run echo $PATH in each shell and post the results here? heck, make might be modifying the $PATH too (although i doubt it), try running echo $PATH at the top of your makefile

[cobalt pelican]

I just fixed it now by adding the git stuff to path (which doesn't make much sense, but whatever)

[split heron]

yeah, i wish programming didn't rely on the environment as much as it does

[cobalt pelican]

btw, still makes no sense why the make command didn't work

since cmd has mkdir

[split heron]

try Get-Command mkdir -All. on unix-like systems this would be type -a mkdir, and my system specifically returns mkdir is /usr/bin/mkdir mkdir is /bin/mkdir mkdir is /usr/sbin/mkdir

cmd has mkdir
true, and so does bash (my shell), but it's not a builtin, it's a file (or "Application", in windows parlance). if i were to type export PATH='' in my terminal right now, any future attempts to run mkdir would fail with bash: mkdir: command not found

[cobalt pelican]

I'm not using powershell but sec

it is there, lol, it just doesn't want to work (2nd one is the alias I just made)

[split heron]

huh. well, the Get-Command doc page does say

Get-Command that uses the exact name of the command, without wildcard characters, automatically imports the module that contains the command so that you can use the command immediately.

[sturdy condor]

IIRC Make will use the sh shell if it finds it, and Git has one

That's why I was suggesting MSYS2, it does too (in fact, git uses a tripped down msys2 I think)

[cobalt pelican]

then it's worse, bc I have sh and bash

both are from git, btw

everything from (...)\usr\bin was added recently

[sturdy condor]

Why is it worse?

What's why I recommend msys2. It brings everything with it: sh, make, mingw, prebuilt third-party libs. And everything is configured to interoperate correctly out of the box

[cobalt pelican]

bc I already have it instealled, bc of git bash

everything on ~/scoop/shims/ is on path by default

[cobalt pelican]

msys2 is too heavy for my use, I just need the binaries, mingw already has that

[cobalt pelican]

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