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