In some cases, it is not desirable to have to specify all the filenames that are required to build a target. OS/2 wildcards ('*' and '?') are supported on the dependency file specification.

Wildcards cannot be used in a dependency list to reference files that do not exist at the time of execution of NMAKE32. Files that will be generated (dependents from one target/dependency statement that are targets in another target/dependency statement) during NMAKE32 execution cannot be referenced using wildcards.

Wildcards cannot be used on targets or for path specifications.