Question

I am trying to compile meshlab under windows. According to their instructions (link)

Using GCC (both under linux and using the mingw gcc provided with the free Qt distribution)
you should just type, from the
devel/meshlab/src directory:

qmake -recursive meshlabv12.pro
make

the first line works. The second fails with

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

I do have qt installed (I am trying to run make under a qt shell).
Why do they claim this step is supposed to work under mingw (which came with qt), while it doesn’t in practice?

Answer 1

I think make.bat should be in MINGW\bin containing simply

@echo off
mingw32-make %*