installing make.exe for cygwin64

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Last Updated: 1/14/2024

This post is, in general, is for those developing on a windows platform and using “cygwin64” as your package/tool of choice.

Aside: This means you used “setup-x86_64.exe” from Link

Assuming you have installed cygwin64 to get gcc. You may, understandably, need some of the standard default development tools. Most notable make. To do that you can simply call the setup utility and pass the name of the package that you additionally would like installed

In the case of “Make”, you can call

setup-x86_64.exe -q --packages=make
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