Creating a workspace using ROS for Windows

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Hello, I followed the instructions given here to install ROS melodic on Windows. The install was successful as I was able to test a few commands like "roscore" and "roscd"

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C:\Windows\System32>roscore
... logging to C:\Users\Administrator\.ros\log\7440560f-cd72-11e9-92b3-44032cd3d0aa\roslaunch-WALEED-TTS-3392.log
Checking log directory for disk usage. This may take a while.
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
Done checking log file disk usage. Usage is <1GB.
started roslaunch server http://WALEED-TTS:53466/
ros_comm version 1.14.3


SUMMARY
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PARAMETERS
 * /rosdistro: melodic
 * /rosversion: 1.14.3

NODES

auto-starting new master
process[master]: started with pid [9592]
ROS_MASTER_URI=http://WALEED-TTS:11311/
setting /run_id to 7440560f-cd72-11e9-92b3-44032cd3d0aa
process[rosout-1]: started with pid [17640]
started core service [/rosout]

The default workspace is OK

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C:\Windows\System32>roscd

C:\opt\ros\melodic\x64>

The problem is I am unable to create a workspace using catkin_make

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C:\Windows\System32>roscd

C:\opt\ros\melodic\x64>cd..

C:\opt\ros\melodic>mkdir catkin_ws\src

C:\opt\ros\melodic>cd catkin_ws

C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws>catkin_make
Base path: C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws
Source space: C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\src
Build space: C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\build
Devel space: C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\devel
Install space: C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\install
Copying file from "C:\opt\ros\melodic\x64\share\catkin\cmake\toplevel.cmake" to "C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\src\CMakeLists.txt"
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#### Running command: "cmake C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\src -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX=C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\devel -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\install -G NMake Makefiles" in "C:\opt\ros\melodic\catkin_ws\build"
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-- The C compiler identification is MSVC 19.22.27905.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is MSVC 19.22.27905.0
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.22.27905/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- Check for working C compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.22.27905/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.22.27905/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe
-- Check for working CXX compiler: C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.22.27905/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Using CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX: C:/opt/ros/melodic/catkin_ws/devel
-- Using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: C:/opt/ros/melodic/x64;C:/opt/rosdeps/x64;C:/opt/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows
-- This workspace overlays: C:/opt/ros/melodic/x64
-- Found PythonInterp: C:/Python27/python2.exe (found suitable version "2.7.16", minimum required ...