Thanks, Michael. Those installation instructions are great (I've created an issue to talk about including them in the workshop template: https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/issues/228).
One last naive Windows question - does Git Bash come with the tar command? That command is used extensively in the Make lesson. On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Michael J Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Damien, > > Quoting Damien Irving <[email protected]> on Mon, 29 Jun > 2015 16:19:36 +1000: > > Great - I think I'll teach this lesson at a workshop next month: >> http://damienirving.github.io/2015-07-13-amos/ >> >> Naive windows question (i.e. I don't have a windows machine to try this >> on): Does Make come with Git Bash? >> > > (1) has Make info for all platforms. For Windows... > > Once you have installed Git Bash you can install Make by: > > * Download make.exe from here (2) > * Place it in the bin directory where you installed Git Bash e.g. > C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin. > * To test: open a Git Bash window, type make, and press Enter. > * You should see the following message > > ``` > make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. > > ``` > This means that Make was successfully installed. Otherwise, you'll see > this error message: > > ``` > bash: make: command not found > ``` > > cheers, > mike > > (1) http://hpcarcher.github.io/2014-12-03-edinburgh/ > (2) https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/master/bin/make.exe?raw=true > > > >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Greg Wilson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> We now have a lesson on using Make that's actually human-readable (unlike >>> the one I did for version 4). See >>> http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/06/adding-a-lesson-on-make.html >>> for the post - many thanks to Mike Jackson and Steve Croucher for putting >>> it together. Additions, corrections, suggestions, and everything else >>> would be very welcome. >>> Cheers, >>> Greg >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] >>> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >>> >>> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr. Michael (Mike) Jackson [email protected] > Software Architect Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5141 > EPCC, The University of Edinburgh http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk > Software Sustainability Institute http://www.software.ac.uk > > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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