Eclipse CDT clean fails on Windows: tries to run rm -rf

Question

I am using Juno with CDT on Windows 7. When I try to clean a project using the internal builder or make provided by MinGW, Eclipse runs the *X command rm -rf and the cl

Answer 1

I have found a workaround, that works good for me: If you look in the managed make makefile, you can find a line "RM := ..." After that line there is a line "-include ../makefile.defs" which does not exist in my case.

If you create this file, you can redefine the "RM := ..." macro to whatever you want.

For example: RM := del

In this case, the automated build process will use your definition to delete files and folders and not the predefined definition of eclipse.