Re: Advice on "clean:" rule for Win32 platform needed...

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Bryan Miller" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 15:18:51 -0800
> 
> I am porting GNU make files from a platform I know very well (U**X) to one I
> don't (Win32) and I am having problems with the lack of shell commands such as
> for/do and xargs.

You could install the ports of Bash and of all the other tools, and
then do the same as on Unix.

> On Unix I do something like:
> 
> clean:
>       address@hidden $(BASE_OBJS)
>       for APP in $(APP_OBJS) ; do \
>         rm $(APP); \
>       done;
> 
> On Win32 the both commands below seem to overflow the cmd.exe buffer due the 
> size
> of the list of objects (~150-200 items):
> 
> clean:
>       address@hidden $(BASE_OBJS)
>       for %f in ($(APP_OBJS)) do @echo %f

One trick, if you cannot install a port of `rm', is to use widlcards:

clean:
        del *.obj

> I know some of you must maintain large build environments on the
> Win32 platform.  What are the "better" ways of writing clean rules?

The best way is to install ported GNU utilities (Fileuitils,
Textutils, Sh-utils, Findutils, Grep, Gawk, Sed, Bash, Diffutils), and
live happily ever after ;-)

> My next step is just to write a Perl
> script and call that but it doesn't seem terribly clean.

IMHO, using Perl for somthing like that is too gross.