NMAKE command execution - possible??

kenmc

Howye,
trying to get nmake to behave a bit like a shell script... want to do something along these lines:

$ListOfFiles = `dir SomeDirectory`

for ($i in $ListOfFiles) do
SomethingWith $i
done

Anyone know if it's possible????

Cheers
Kenmc

daymobrew

I doubt you can do this in nmake (Microsoft command line make)
Docs at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcug98/html/_asug_overview.3a_.nmake_reference.asp

I assume that the pseudo code block you list is a subset of the makefile, otherwise I would suggest just writing a shell script.
Maybe you could have a rule which would invoke the shell script e.g.

file.exe: file.c shell.out
cc file.c
shell.sh

clean:
rm shell.out

Then in shell.sh you create shell.out to satisfy the dependency.
Of course how you get makefile to use the info that shell.sh retrieved is another thing that I have no idea about.