Problems with Rebuild

[Anonymous]

Project   : Console application
Compiler  : MinGW Compiler Suite
Directory : D:\CodeBlockTest\
rm -f hello2.exe .objs/main.o  
process_begin: CreateProcess((null), rm -f hello2.exe .objs/main.o, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean_default] Error 2
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
0 errors, 0 warnings

What is wrong? I can compile the single file, but rebuild gives me a problem.

Regards,
Thomad

[mandrav]

Go to "Settings/Configure plugins/Compiler", switch to the "Makefile variables" tab and change the value of "RM" from "rm -f" to "del /f".
That should do it.

[mike]

I got into the same problem after deinstalling Dev-C++ (which obviously had this command). I have installed MinGW distribution, but it does not have "rm". So I changed the settings as described above (by the way, wouldn't it be helpful to do it anyway for Windows distribution? Not too many people have Cygwin incidently installed for the sake of "rm" ;-).

Then running "build" is fine, but running "rebuild" produces the following:

Cleaning target "msvc-debug"...
Invalid switch - "<filename>.obj".
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean_msvc-debug] Error 1
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)

Any ideas?

[mandrav]

Grab this package here and unzip it in the mingw installation folder (e.g. c:\Mingw). It contains mv.exe rm.exe and cp.exe. I had these files in my hard drive for so long, I can't remember where I got them... I believe they 're from unxutils.

I think i should bundle those files in the setup (first check the licensing)...

Yiannis.

[mike]

I think i should bundle those files in the setup (first check the licensing)...

Or add Makefile variables to also allow adjusting of "mv" and "cp" to the DOS alternatives "move" and "(x)copy".

[mandrav]

IIRC, mv and cp are not used anywhere...
In any case, if you need them, you can add them yourself as makefile variables.

Yiannis.

[mike]

If "mv" and "cp" are not used, and "rm" can be adjusted (which I did) - what fails?

[mandrav]

Possibly "del /f", but can't be sure without looking at the makefile...

[Anonymous]

Im sorry if somebody already asked this, but maybe if the path is interpreted differently by "rm" and "del": "rm" (GNU) uses '/' while "del" (DOS) uses '\', and codeblocks always uses '/' for the file paths with the clean command because it originally assumes "rm" will be used...

[Anonymous]

Experiment showed that having only "rm" in the MinGW directory is sufficient to make the thing run properly.

mike

[mandrav]

Yes, the only external dependencies of codeblocks are "rm" and "make" (which are not anymore )
And a compiler of course!

Yiannis.

[mike]

What about "zip"? I get the following message for one of the projects:

process_begin: CreateProcess((null), zip.exe -a P_inc.cbp.zip P_inc.cbp Makefile <a bunch of header files>, ...) failed.
make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.
mingw32-make.exe: *** [dist] Error 2
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)

In this project I only have header files for reference.