Error with `telescope.nvim`

[dwinkler1]

I am getting the following error after cloning on windows 11. I'm pretty new to nvim but it seems telescope-fzf-native is missing and I cannot seem to be able to figure out how to install it (Mason does not show it). I would be grateful for any suggestions!

Failed to run `config` for telescope.nvim

...a/lazy/telescope.nvim/lua/telescope/_extensions/init.lua:10: 'fzf' extension doesn't exist or isn't installed: ...nvim-data/lazy/telescope-fzf-native.nvim/lua/fzf_lib.lua:11: cannot load module 'C:/Users/danie/AppData/Local/nvim-data/lazy/telescope-fzf-native.nvim/lua/../build/libfzf.dll': The specified module could not be found.^M


# stacktrace:
  - telescope.nvim\lua\telescope\_extensions\init.lua:10 _in_ **load_extension**
  - telescope.nvim\lua\telescope\_extensions\init.lua:62 _in_ **load_extension**
  - ui.lua:53 _in_ **config**
  - ~\AppData\Local\nvim/lua/config/lazy.lua:17

[jmbuhr]

fzf is a fuzzy finder that speeds up telescope search, and the fzf-native extension tries to automatically install that. But in order to do so it needs the dependencies to build fzf, which don't come with windows: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope-fzf-native.nvim#make-linux-macos-windows-with-mingw

You can either install them and then this line will automatically build fzf or comment out the line and not use fzf.

(Mason only installs language servers I think, which is why id doesn't have something like fzf)

[dwinkler1]

Thank you very much for the quick answer. It seems my misunderstanding was with windows (possibly the PATH) since I had MinGW installed but it somehow couldn't find make. I installed make using choco for future reference.