Question

I use emacs to code and compile C# project.

My project folder contain:

--\test
----Helloworld.cs
----make.bat

Then I open Helloworld.cs in a buffer and M-x compile, emacs will compile project for me.

But if my project folder construction is like this:

--\test
----\src
------Helloworld.cs
----make.bat

Then I open Helloworld.cs in a buffer and M-x compile, emacs cannot find make.bat.

I have to locate make.bat for “compile command” in minibuffer.

Any help is welcome.

Answer 1

If ../make.bat works, then indeed it’s a good option. If not, you can use cd ../; ./make.bat as your compilation command instead. You could even make Emacs look up the directory hierarchy for a make.bat file and add as many ../ as needed.