skeeto / skeeto/w64devkit

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

  1. open windows shell in raylib dir
  2. C:\raylib\w64devkit>set PATH=C:\raylib\w64devkit\bin;%PATH%
  3. 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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Tech stack
shell
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Bug
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