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I'm trying to install PyGObject, so (I guess) I need to install jhbuild. I was following the tutorial that I found on https://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/getting-started.html.pt_BR (I got there following the links on Python documentation, so it's probably the official installation guide)

I created a folder called jhbuild inside my user, and a folder called checkout, inside the folder jhbuild, and started a git bash there.

I ran cd jhbuild, ./autogen.sh

Then the message `make' is required to configure & build jhbuild

I continued the tutorial anyway with make, but the message bash: make: command not found appeared

What do I have to do to continuing the installation?

Lucas Emanuel Genova
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  • jhbuild has nothing to do with installing pygobject in your system, you can easily do that using the package manager of your distro (on linux) or MSYS2 (on windows). Also if you son't know what "make" is, I'm afraid you will have to do some more researches on the linux system, its components and of course what is make itself and jhbuild – gianmt Jun 26 '20 at 12:03
  • Well, I'm using Windows... in fact I don't have any knowledge about Linux. But thank you! I'll try to use MSYS2 – Lucas Emanuel Genova Jun 28 '20 at 23:56

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The error bash: make: command not found indicates you don't have make on your system or in your PATH. You should install make on your system. How depends on your operating system.

It has nothing to do with jhbuild per se.

In fact I'm building PyGobject in my MSYS2+MinGW-w64 environment completely without jhbuild, using meson and ninja.

If you're a beginner and you're on Windows the easiest way to get PyGObject is to use MSYS2 and install the mingw-w64-x86_64-python-gobject package (with pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-python-gobject).

Brecht Sanders
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