Calling Windows commands (e.g. del) from a GNU makefile

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It does not appear to be possible to call Windows system commands (e.g. del, move, etc) using GNU Make.

When the following rule is run, an error is reported del: command not found:

clean:
   del *.o

This is presumably because there is no such execuatable as "del". I've also tried running it as an option to cmd but with this only seems to open a new prompt:

clean:
    cmd /C del *.o

I'm using GNU Make 3.79.1 that is bundled as part of MSys.

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