How can I use “make” in windows? mingw32

Question

I'm just a newbie. I don't know why "make" is not working. I did the instructions in the book.

-I created a makefile.txt

-I put the target, dependencies and the rule/command

encrypt.o: encrypt.c encrypt.h
gcc -c encrypt.c

practice.o: practice.c encrypt.h
gcc -c practice.c

executable: practice.o encrypt.o
    gcc practice.o encrypt.o -o executable

-I'm using 'tab' to indent those commands (gcc -c practice.c, etc. . .) don't know why it's not indenting here.

-then in the command prompt I typed:

make executable

And this error came:

'-make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Is there another process for Windows? I'm in Windows 10 using mingw32. I also have TDM-GCC-64. But since I'm a newbie, I don't have any Idea about them.

Answer 1

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbundle/files/latest/download -- with Mingw+msys

Only msys , you can download from: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjC5YyV1NXVAhUP1WMKHS6qDawQFghAMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprdownloads.sf.net%2Fmingw%2FMSYS-1.0.10.exe%3Fdownload&usg=AFQjCNHKJSr677lkRS3MF0DiWTHCNldeXQ

make is inside msys package not Mingw .

Note: please update PATH environmental variable for msys make directory also.