Mar
27
2009
‘nmake’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
Posted by alex in Errors at 1:48 AMThis means nmake is not installed on your Windows PC. To install you need to downloading, extract, and place two files into your $PATH. Follow the couple steps below to install nmake on your PC. In my case I installed nmake on Windows XP.
- Download nmake: Visit the following link to download nmake.
- Extract nmake:Run the Nmake15.exe file which will extract two files to the directory where it is located. These files will be nmake.exe and NMAKE.ERR.
- Place nmake In PATH: Now move those two files into your path somewhere such as C:\WINDOWS\system32 or print out your path as shown below to place them in a different location.
Print PATH:
C:>PATH PATH=C:\Perl\site\bin;C:\Perl\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\USB Display Adapter\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\bin;C:\ruby\bin;C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin;C:\Program Files\Vim\vim72;C:\cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\pub;C:\cygwin\nmap;c:\mspgcc\bin
- Test nmake: Now type nmake from a DOS prompt and you should see output similar to the below.
C:>nmakeMicrosoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.NMAKE : fatal error U1064: MAKEFILE not found and no target specified Stop.
**NOTE** The Paths in the above article were previously incorrect because of a formatting issue. This has been resolved.
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Thanks for your post this information, it helps me
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alex Reply:
December 24th, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Hello Misganaw,
No problem at all. Thank you for taking the time to leave feedback.
Thanks.
alex
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Thanks this helped..
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alex Reply:
February 9th, 2011 at 10:19 AM
Hello Neha,
No problem. Thanks for posting feedback.
Thanks.
alex
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Thank you so much!!! I was really lost till I ran into this post. I need it for Windows 7 but it was easy enough to make the changes required to make it work, once I read your explanation. :)
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alex Reply:
March 27th, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Hello shir,
No problem at all. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.
Thanks.
alex
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Jake Reply:
September 27th, 2011 at 2:29 AM
How did you get it to work with windows 7? I have tried many of those paths and it still gives the error.
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alex Reply:
October 4th, 2011 at 4:50 AM
Hello Jake,
The Paths in the article were incorrect as they were all missing back slashes… I have just resolved the errors so make sure you were using the fill path and hopeful y that will resolve the issues you are having.
Thanks.
alex
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wow..
pro at work here..
!!! thnx sooo much!!!
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alex Reply:
June 20th, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Hello venkat,
No problem at all. Thanks for taking the time to leave feedback.
Thanks.
alex
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Thanks
helped me a lot :)
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alex Reply:
September 9th, 2011 at 3:19 PM
Hello Preethi,
No problem. Thanks for posting feedback.
Thanks.
alex
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Can you help me with nmake for 64 bit?
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alex Reply:
October 4th, 2011 at 1:36 AM
Hello Malar,
I believe I installed the 32bit version on a 64bit machine so the directions above should work. Unfortunately if they do not I don’t have the time for any testing on 64bit at the moment.
Thanks.
alex
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I am not able to run nmake15.exe from the said website onto a 64bit system. Can you please help.
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alex Reply:
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:17 AM
Hello Pri,
You might try running nmake15.exe in compatibility mode on your system which I am assuming is a Windows 7 machine. It will not work running it as a 64 bit application so if you run in 32 bit compatibility mode it should work properly.
Thanks.
alex
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