make --version command returning string of seemingly random characters and write error

I'm trying to check the version of Make via command prompt and when I run make --version, the command just returns

GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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?2???-???3?￠.
???A?≪?a“A’e?I?U“I?O?I“K?‡?≪?I”@‰??E?O?i?c?，, ?3?U?O?A?・.

This program built for i386-pc-mingw32
make: write error

What could be causing this?