Makefile not working with cygwin

Question

I just installed cygwin with C++ compiler and Perl on my windows machine. Whenever trying to compile the C++ files with the makefile I get the following error:

>make
Cant find C:\Program on PATH

Not sure what path is exactly missing and where I can change it...

Answer 1

You should install cygwin in C:\, not in C:\Program Files\ - the latter often causes problems because of the space, as is the case here.

Answer 2

You've got a space in your PATH environment variable. Wherever you set the path, you might use an 8.3 filename instead of an extended filename, or you might encapsulate the section with spaces in quotes. For example: PATH=c:\windows;"c:\program files\foo"