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I am trying to build a C project on Win10 and i am using MinGW32-make. Prior to build the build directories should be created, and this is where build breaks with following output:

mkdir build\f2803x
process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, mkdir build\f2803x, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
Makefile:64: recipe for target 'build\f2803x' failed
mingw32-make: *** [build\f2803x] Error 2
I've tried running the mkdir command from the command line and it runs successfuly, however when i try running mingw32-make it fails. I've been searcing the web and one answer to the similar question pointed out that PATH in for the Mingw32-make and PATH for the windows may not be the same, so i added echo path to the makefile and compared the output to echo %PATH% from the cmd. It appears that they are not the same. Mingw32-make has
/mingw64/bin:/usr/bin:/c/Users/user123/bin that is not stated anywhere in any of the windows environment variables. I've also searched the registry as a last resort, however this is not in registry either. Where can these additional paths come from, and is it even the issue of the path?
                You need to run cmd.exe /c mkdir build\f2803x.  Mkdir is a built-in command in cmd.exe, not a program you can run from CreateProcess().
– jwdonahue
                Feb 27, 2020 at 21:37
                OK, I get it now. the CreateProcess(NULL, command, ...) is because the program doesn't exist. In the case of cmd.exe there is no mkdir command because it's built in. Thanks for the clarification.
– harry courtice
                Mar 28, 2020 at 12:50
        
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