in windows shell running make clean give "del: not found" error
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Description
Running make clean command gives error in windows 10
While trying to clean the lib from source
- open windows shell in raylib dir
- C:\raylib\w64devkit>set PATH=C:\raylib\w64devkit\bin;%PATH%
- cd c:\dev\my\raylib\raylib_git\raylib-4.0.0\src
Then :
c:\dev\my\raylib\raylib_git\raylib-4.0.0\src>make clean del *.o /s sh: del: not found make: *** [Makefile:685: clean] Error 127
By the way solution is to convert to rm command in makefile :

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Start with the clean target at Makefile:685 and reproduce make clean from the Windows shell described in the report. Check how the clean command is interpreted in w64devkit and verify the cleanup behavior on Windows; done means the command completes without the reported del: not found error.
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