make: *** [_build] Error 2

[SørenHN]

I have somewhat followed this guide for setting up Eclipse to program the nrf51822. I get this error message when trying build the project in eclipse:

12:35:35 **** Incremental Build of configuration realserver for project X ****
make nrf USE_TEST_SERVER=0 
make -f  makefile -C ./  -e nrf52832_xxaa_s132
make[1]: Går til katalog 'C:/eclipse-workspace/gcc'
echo  makefile
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, echo makefile, ...) failed.
make[1]: Forlader katalog 'C:/eclipse-workspace/gcc'
make (e=2): Den angivne fil blev ikke fundet.

make[1]: *** [_build] Error 2
make: *** [nrf] Error 2

12:35:35 Build Finished (took 426ms)

I have tried reinstalling GNUMAKE, GNU Tools and eclipse but nothing seems to work. What can be the problem?

[Susheel Nuguru]

not really sure what happened here. Are you getting the same errors when you run this makefile from the command line?

[SørenHN]

After further testing, it seems to be a bug in GNU Make V3.81 which I was using. I have found other people with similar problems on support forums but no good solutions. My solution has for now been installing the build chain in a virtual Linux machine with the newest version of GNU Make

[Keith Wakeham]

Wasted some time on this, ended up here, so here is the real solution. Re-find blog post on setting up eclipse... Coreutils!

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm

That's what's missing for windows

See blog post

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/development-with-eclipse-and-gcc

I'm sure someone else will re-install windows and forget this bit and land here too!