[QUESTION] How to use 'make deploy' in Windows

[Frank Allotta]

Question

How do you use 'make deploy' in windows when using a make file?

Context

I have a make file set up and I am trying to run 'make deploy-vpc' from the windows command line. I have Make installed via choco but I receive the following error.

C:\Users<USER>\Projects\vpc-tf>make deploy-vpc
DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT=common runway deploy --tag vpc
'DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
make: *** [Makefile:4: deploy-vpc] Error 1

This is the content of the make file.

deploy-vpc:
DEPLOY_ENVIRONMENT=common runway deploy --tag vpc

I'm guessing this is due to some inherent issue with the way Windows uses environment variables on the command line?

[mbordash2]

Hi Frank,
You may be on the right track with how Windows manages env variables, I'll have to track down a Windows env to test with, but can you just update your command to pass in the env like this instead?

poetry run runway plan --deploy-environment test
[runway] deploy environment "test" is explicitly defined in the environment
[runway] if not correct, update the value or unset it to fall back to the name of the current git branch or parent directory