.BAT in "Execute after" pitfall

[Chebmaster]

Addendum:
should have used

cmd /c build.bat

instead of

.\build.bat

right from the start.
Lzarus invoking cmd.exe works perfectly, the script executes as designed finally allowing me to use loops and other advanced syntax.

[Ñuño Martínez]

This reminds me that I was thinking about drop makefiles from my Pascal projects and use sh/bat/cmd scripts instead. Since I've learned how to do conditionals in bat/cmd files it seems more possible.

[de_jean_7777]

Since both sh and cmd have their own quirks, I tend to avoid them. sh is more usable than cmd though. At work I use python instead of either. But personally, I have simple sh/cmd scripts to just build a simple pascal executable which does the rest. With instafpc or so should be a lot easier to make setup/build scripts than with sh/cmd. I've found, especially when one is doing redundant things, that duplicating functionality accross sh or cmd is bothersome.

[Ñuño Martínez]

I always forget that Pascal can be used as a shell script as well. I have to see how does it work on Windows though.