[Mingw-users] rm.exe download

[Napoleon Ahiable]

Hi, all
I just found that I do not have rm.exe in the bin directory of my MingW
3.2 installation. I thought it came with mingw. Is it available as a
single file I can download ? or I have to download the whole og Dev-C++
just to get that file.

Napoleon

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[Greg Chicares]

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
I just found that I do not have rm.exe in the bin directory of my MingW
3.2 installation. I thought it came with mingw. Is it available as a
single file I can download ? or I have to download the whole og Dev-C++
just to get that file.

You can extract a win32 binary for rm from:

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw32/porters/Mikey/fileutils316-ming.tar.bz2

which is 448 Kb; I don't know how big Dev-C++ is.

If you want a mingw package with rm and related
utilities, download MSYS, which is about 3 Mb.
With MSYS, you could even build rm from source.

[Earnie Boyd]

Post by Greg Chicares
If you want a mingw package with rm and related
utilities, download MSYS, which is about 3 Mb.
With MSYS, you could even build rm from source.

Why, rm.exe comes with MSYS.

Earnie.

[Thomas Tutone]

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
Hi, all
I just found that I do not have rm.exe in the bin
directory of my MingW
3.2 installation. I thought it came with mingw. Is
it available as a
single file I can download ? or I have to download
the whole og Dev-C++
just to get that file.
Napoleon

rm.exe is a *nix utility. The easiest way to get a
copy is to download MSYS (info available on the minGW
homepage), which includes that and a bunch of other
*nix utilities.

Best regards,

Tom

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[Napoleon Ahiable]

Hi,
I needed rm.exe so I downloaded MYSYS as advised. I then copied rm.exe
to my MINGW directory. When I try to clean I get the error message
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.

Another concern is that the size of rm.exe from the MYSYS package is
64k. and a couple of rm.exe files sent to by some good people from
DEV-C++ are just 2k and that give these error messages when used
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 87.

I'll appreaciate your input.

Napoleon.

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[Earnie Boyd]

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
Hi,
I needed rm.exe so I downloaded MYSYS as advised. I then copied rm.exe
to my MINGW directory. When I try to clean I get the error message
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.

No, don't copy, leave it with msys and add d:\path\to\msys\1.0\bin to
your PATH.

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
Another concern is that the size of rm.exe from the MYSYS package is
64k. and a couple of rm.exe files sent to by some good people from
DEV-C++ are just 2k and that give these error messages when used
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 87.

You've not given me enough to decern the problem.

Earnie.

[Daniel Taupin]

Post by Earnie Boyd

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
Hi,
I needed rm.exe so I downloaded MYSYS as advised. I then copied rm.exe
to my MINGW directory. When I try to clean I get the error message
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.

No, don't copy, leave it with msys and add d:\path\to\msys\1.0\bin to
your PATH.

Should one put msys/1.0/bin before of after mingw/bin ?

Maybe this depends on the fact one works inside MSYS or works (as I do)
in MS-DOS windows... What is the answer?

Post by Earnie Boyd

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
Another concern is that the size of rm.exe from the MYSYS package is
64k. and a couple of rm.exe files sent to by some good people from
DEV-C++ are just 2k and that give these error messages when used
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 87.

You've not given me enough to decern the problem.
Earnie.
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Post by Daniel Taupin

Post by Earnie Boyd

Post by Napoleon Ahiable
Hi,
I needed rm.exe so I downloaded MYSYS as advised. I then copied rm.exe
to my MINGW directory. When I try to clean I get the error message
mingw32-make.exe: *** [clean] Error 128.

No, don't copy, leave it with msys and add d:\path\to\msys\1.0\bin to
your PATH.

Should one put msys/1.0/bin before of after mingw/bin ?

In most cases it wouldn't matter but after to be sure.

Post by Daniel Taupin
Maybe this depends on the fact one works inside MSYS or works (as I do)
in MS-DOS windows... What is the answer?

I don't know the answer, you may find that the make from MSYS works
better for you. You may need to add a --win32 switch to the MSYS
version of make if your Makefile is too win32 centric.

HTH,
Earnie.