Re: Problems installing M4 on windows 7

Dave Bucklin <[email protected]> Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:56:49 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.m4.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On April 19, 2020 3:18:06 PM CDT, spaceman <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Ove,
>
>Ove Fagerheim wrote:
>> 
>> bash: make: command not found  
>> bash: make: command not found
>> 
>
>You need to install GNU make.
>
>I am not certain that GNU M4 will run on Git bash (never tried). You
>might need to use cygwin instead.

I've gotten m4 on G4W by downloading it from the packages at https://packages.msys2.org/base, using zx to decompress it, then untarring to the root folder.