I have just tested that "egg": http://github.com/bogolisk/egg/tree/master works in my windows machine.
Probably you could take a look to their mechanism. Cheers, José M. On Aug 3, 12:22 pm, José María <[email protected]> wrote: > First congratulations for this package. And the disclaimer: I am a > newbie with emacs, magit and git. > > I am trying to make magit work under windows. I have manage to do so > with for instance doc-view. I am trying to follow the same approach, > but it is not working. What I have tried (without success): > 1. I have the binary installed on: C:/instalado/Git/bin/git.exe. And > it works right using the command line. > 2. First approach: > - I have change the customizable option: "magit-git-executable" to > "git.exe" > - I have added to the path: > (setq exec-path '( ........."C:/instalado/Git/bin" ........)) > > This fails with: > Local: (detached) c:/Home/myname/wiki/ > Head: "'git.exe'" no se reconoce como un comando interno o > externo, > programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable. > (the spanish means: it is not recognized as an internal or external > command, application or batch file) > > 3. Second approach: > - I have change the customizable option: "magit-git-executable" > into "C:/instalado/Git/bin/git.exe" > It fails but insteed of making a reference to "'git.exe'" it makes > reference to "'C:'" > > I guess it shouldn't be difficult to follow a similar approach to "doc- > view.el" in order to convert magit into a multiplatform solution. > > Thanks again, > José María
