At 05:51 PM 8/8/2001 -0400, Don Coleman wrote:
>
> The solution to get this to work was to add c:\cygwin\bin to my system path.
> I was under the impression that cygwin was optional. I don't run bash
> through emacs so I had no reason to add it to the system path.
>
> Is cygwin required for Win2000/Emacs 20.7.1? JDE 2.2.7.1, 2.2.8beta4 and
> 2.2.8beta5 all do not compile or build until I add cygwin/bin to the path.
> Everything else seems to work OK.
Hi Don,
I'm not having any problems running compilations on Win 2000 SP2, using the
native shell.
I use the following functions to set up my environment for the various shells I
use. You might want to try the one for cmdproxy to see if it makes a
difference.
- Paul
(defun set-shell-bash()
(interactive)
(setq shell-file-name "bash")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "bash")
(if (not running-xemacsp)
(setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name))
(setq explicit-sh-args '("-login" "-i"))
(setq shell-command-switch "-c")
(setq w32-quote-process-args ?\")
(setq win32-quote-process-args ?\")
; use unix looking '/' when completing directory names
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
'(lambda ()
;; I don't want to see the startup message.
(setq inhibit-startup-message t)
(setq comint-completion-addsuffix '("/" . " ")))
t))
(defun set-shell-zsh()
(interactive)
(setq binary-process-input t)
(setq shell-file-name "cmdproxy")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "zsh")
(setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name)
(setq explicit-sh-args '("-login" "-i"))
(setenv "TERM" "emacs"))
(defun set-shell-cmdproxy()
(interactive)
(setq shell-file-name "cmdproxy")
(setq explicit-shell-file-name "cmdproxy")
(setenv "SHELL" explicit-shell-file-name)
(setq w32-quote-process-args t)
(setq shell-command-switch "/c"))
(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
(progn
(setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil)
(setq w32-lwindow-modifier 'hyper)
(set-shell-bash)
(setq archive-zip-use-pkzip nil)
(setq comint-process-echoes nil)
(if (not running-xemacsp)
(if (> emacs-major-version 19)
(setq w32-enable-italics t
w32-swap-mouse-buttons t)
(setq win32-enable-italics t
win32-swap-mouse-buttons t)))))
