Re: [AUCTeX] AUCTeX cannot find pdflatex (Windows)

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Wed, Feb 15 2012,Michael Bach wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running AUCTeX 11.86 on emacs 24.0.92.1 obtained from [1].  I
> installed AUCTeX via `package.el' from elpa.  I did no customization of
> `TeX-command-list' or relatives.  My OS is Windows 7 because this is a
> box at work.  I already installed MiKTeX 2.9 for Windows.  When doing a
> C-c C-c LaTeX on the file (with TeX-PDF-mode t) the error is:
>
> Running `LaTeX' on `monitoring' with ``pdflatex  -interaction=nonstopmode
> "\input" "monitoring.tex"''
> 'pdflatex' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>

not sure on the Emacs version that you're using, however from Emacs,
what does M-x getenv RET PATH RET show?  Does it have the path to the
MikTex bin directory?

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> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://code.google.com/p/emacs-for-windows/


 sivaram
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