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Wildcard for files in sub-directory in NMAKE

How could one make a wildcard dependency like boot/*.inc work in NMAKE?

Solution

  • This works for me, with VS 2017:

    >type makefile
mytarget : boot\*.inc
        !@echo $?

>dir/b boot
one.inc
two.inc

>nmake
boot\one.inc
boot\two.inc

    The on-line documentation for NMAKE provided by Microsoft is simply awful.

    In contrast, the older 59-page PDF document entitled Chapter 16: Managing Projects with NMAKE is vastly superior. It appears to agree with the current online version (an errata would be nice!). But it is surprisingly hard to find via Google; three possible links are:

    A good way to find them via certain search engines: "Mike Eddy" nmake MSGRIDA1.DOT filetype:pdf