Re: Emacs uses "global" compiler instead of embedded

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bartosz Bubak <bartosz.bubak@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:12:53 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > M-: (executable-find "gcc") RET
> "c:/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/gcc.exe
> > M-: (executable-find "as") RET
> "c:/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin/as.exe"
> 
> This is problem, it should be:
> C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs-28.2\bin\gcc.exe
> C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs-28.2\bin\as.exe
> 
> On the other hand, I don't want all the rest of the tools in the system to
> use this installation, so changing global PATH is pointless.
> 
> That's what I'm explaining from the beginning, I have only one MinGW
> instance, in chocolatey.
> The second is installed and configured automatically by the emacs installer
> and that is what emacs should use.
> Not my "main" in the system.

Didn't you say that if you remove the GCC installation in
C:\Program Files\Emacs\emacs-28.2\, everything starts working?

> In my opinion, the problem is that emacs does not consider local folders
> when it looks for the compiler.

It doesn't, and it shouldn't.

> Should look in:
> 1) Local directories,
> if not found
> 2) Global system configuration
> And it does the opposite, only when gcc is missing in global configuration
> it uses local.

AFAIU, it isn't Emacs that looks for GCC, it's libgccjit DLL.  So
maybe just removing libgccjit DLL that came with Emacs will solve your
problem.