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POUsing nmake with wildcards in the makefile
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copied!<p>I am attempting to set up an nmake makefile to export our balsamiq mockup files to png files automatically, but I'm afraid I can't make heads nor tails of how to make a generic rule for doing so, without explicitly listing all the files I want exported.</p> <p><a href="http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/?p=231" rel="noreferrer">This page</a> details the command line syntax for exporting the files, and <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms925728.aspx" rel="noreferrer">this page</a> contains an example which looks like it contains a generic rule for .obj files to .exe files.</p> <p>The makefile I have tried so far looks like this:</p> <pre><code>.bmml.png: "C:\Program Files\Balsamiq Mockups\Balsamiq Mockups.exe" export $< $@ </code></pre> <p>But this doesn't work.</p> <p>If I simply run nmake (with some outdated png files), nmake just does this:</p> <pre><code>[C:\Temp] :nmake Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. [C:\Temp] : </code></pre> <p>If I ask it to build one specific file, it does this:</p> <pre><code>[C:\Temp] :nmake "TestFile.png" Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '"TestFile.png"' Stop. [C:\Temp] : </code></pre> <p>Any nmake gurus out there that can set me straight?</p> <p>An example makefile which simply makes .dat files from .txt files by copying them, to experiment with, looks like this:</p> <pre><code>.txt.dat: copy $< $@ </code></pre> <p>this does nothing as well, so clearly I'm not understanding how such generic rules work. Do I need to specify a goal above that somehow lists the files I want?</p> <hr> <p><strong>Edit</strong>: In response to new answer:</p> <p>This makefile:</p> <pre><code>{}.txt{}.dat: copy $** $@ </code></pre> <p>with this file (test.dat)</p> <pre><code>1 2 3 </code></pre> <p>and this command:</p> <pre><code>NMAKE test.txt </code></pre> <p>Produces this error message:</p> <pre><code>[C:\] :nmake test.txt Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.30729.01 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'test.txt' Stop. </code></pre>

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