How to recompile .dol source codes?

[Air Conditioner]

New to coding and stuff and I wanted to make some simple edits to some dol sources I found. Mostly graphic stuff and certain lines of text to match my portable. I've installed Devkit Pro and have tried to recompile the unmodified source in Programmers Notepad but I keep getting errors. Did I skip something or/and did I miss something? I'm running Windows 10. The error in getting is "no targets specified and no makefiles found. Stop."

Btw I have the sources in my c:/ directory and none of the folders contain spaces so that isn't the issue.

[megalomaniac]

try one of the example sources first: hello world included in the GC examples download
also run "make" from command line....once you make sure it works then you can try programmers notepad or whatever else you want...

[Air Conditioner]

How do I do that? I've got myself in the directory that the Makefile is in but I don't know what to do next.

[megalomaniac]

type into commandline:
make

[Air Conditioner]

I was able to get brosexec to recompile in the command line but not Swiss or GCMM. I was getting error about make.exe not being found and it said a bunch of .tpl files were missing. GCMM said it was missing a file named "ft2build.h"

What else should I provide? I'm new to this like I said so I'm pretty lost on trouble shooting it. Thanks mega.

[capzlk]

you might need to do this with administrator permissions, depending on where devkitpro/ppc are installed