RE: [h-e-w] I having problems compiling a C program in emacs for windows

[Postmaster]

You need to set your 'compile-command' to be whatever magic commands you
would use to compile your program is your were just doing it from (say) the
command line.

'cc' is the default compiler name that comes on most *nix like systems.  
Windows doesn't come with a compiler, so once you get one installed, you
need to set the 'compile-command' variable to invoke it.  You also have
to make sure the compiler is on your search path.

For example, on my system, the magic word is 'build.cmd' - I wrote a command
file to do all the heavy lifting, and EMACS invokes that to do all the
work.

    Michael H.

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HI, 
 
I having problems compiling a C program in emacs for windows 
I am using windows XP and I down loaded the full emacs program unpacked it
and got it working. 
My problems start when I try and compile a simple C Program - when I try and
compile the file after using the commands
<m-x> compile
cc  test-file.c
 
I get an error message saying 
cc not a recognised command
 
Now I know that I am missing some thing very simple so simple in fact that I
can find no reference to it anywhere. Now I am sure that this works in the
Linux emacs version. 
 
I would appreciate someone's help
 
Mark