Program “make” not found in PATH

Question

I‘m having the Program "make" not found in PATH error in eclipse. I checked the path variable which is:

C:\cygwin\bin;
%JAVA_HOME%\bin;
%ANT_HOME%\bin;
%ANDROID_SDK%\tools;
%ANDROID_SDK%\platform-tools;
%ANDROID_NDK%;
%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;
C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;
%SystemRoot%\system32;
%SystemRoot%;
%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;
%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd

The PATH starts with the folder which contains make (I checked and make.exe is in there), but eclipse still goes Program "make" not found in PATH.

I have tried changing the path and restarting several times but nothing seems to change.

Do you have a make.exe file somewhere in your path, e.g. in C:\cygwin\bin ? You should install GNU make otherwise. — Basile Starynkevitch, Jul 20 ‘12 at 12:14
Do not multipost please . You have already asked this question at: eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/773854 (the last comment) — Adel Boutros, Jul 20 ‘12 at 12:17

Wojciech Fornal · Answer 1 · 2014-10-17 08:07:11Z

You may try altering toolchain in case if for some reason you can‘t use gcc. Open Properties for your project (by right clicking on your project name in the Project Explorer), then C/C++ Build > Tool Chain Editor. You can change the current builder there from GNU Make Builder to CDT Internal Builder or whatever compatible you have.

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