Re: msys2 build path problems + copy-paste english results in chinese characters

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

>>> >> Also, as seen exec-path is wrong. I started, as recommended, via windows means (shortcuts) instead of
>>> >> msys/mingw prompts.
>>> >
>>> > Wrong how?  I don't see anything about exec-path in the image you
>>> > posted.
>>> 
>>> Look at warning from the native-comp in window below; it can not find assemblern
>>> (gnu as). When looking at exec-path I see no paths from mingw present anywhere,
>>> but I did found "." in the path, which I haven't put there myself.
>>
>> The "." part is added by the MSYS2 Bash.  but I still don't understand
>> why it gets in the way.  Does the directory where you have gas.exe
> It is not considered very safe to have it in the path, so I am very suspicisious
> to that.
>
>>                          Does the directory where you have gas.exe
>> appear on the system-wide PATH?
>
> Nope; I haven't manually added any of msys paths to the system, I thought the
> build would add some default paths to msys dirs.

Try this in your .emacs :

(let ((dir (file-name-directory (car command-line-args))))
  (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") path-separator dir))
  (setq exec-path (append exec-path (list dir))))