Re: How to set environment for the compile command in Win32?

[Kin Cho]

Put something like this into your .emacs:

(setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") ";" "c:/my-path"))
(setenv "INCLUDE" "c:/my-include")

Now your M-x shell or compile will inherit these settings.

-kin

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> System: Intel Pentium M, Windows XP Professional,
>       GNU Emacs 21.3 (binary as distributed by FSF)
> 
> I'm trying to set enviroment variables (PATH, INCLUDE, LIB, etc.) for
> the 
>       M-x compile RET
> command.
> 
> Is there a way to do this from inside emacs?
> 
> I've set the enviroment for the 
>       M-x shell RET
> command, by putting "set" commands into the
>       %HOME%\.emacs_cmdproxy.exe
> file.  And that works.  But this file isn't run before the compile
> command is run.
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> 
> - Steinar