"make clean" issue in MSYS/Cygwin

makefile, recipe, windows

Solution

It seems like you are mixing your platforms. `del` is a `cmd.exe` builtin, which is why it cannot be found by Bash. The analog to `del` is `rm`.

Try running `make` under `cmd.exe`

or

editing the Makefile, replacing `del /S` with `rm -f`

Problem

I finally managed to compile a program in Windows, which took a while and would have not been possible without some help from here. It all works now, except: "make clean" yields ``` /bin/sh: del: command not found Makefile:44: recipe for target `clean' failed make: *** [clean] Error 127 ``` In the makefile, the clean command looks like ``` clean: del /S *.o *~ *.out [...], eliminating all resulting .o and executables resulting from make. ``` mingw64 is in the path, and I tried with `cygwin/bin` in the path and without, both with the same result. "Make" was done with `mingw32-make` in `msys`. I also tried "mingw-32-make clean" in `msys`, still no luck; I am also not sure if "make clean" is supported in Cygwin at all. I run the whole thing on Windows 7, 64 bit. How can I fix this problem?

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