From: Abdelrazak Younes Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:45:34 GMT Subject: Re: [msysgit] how to detect git.exe directory? Message-ID: <476EBADE.6080805@free.fr> In-Reply-To: Marco Costalba wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm progressing on qgit installer for windows, I have switched to > MSVC for compiling Qt4 and qgit sources and I have to say that first > results are very good, qgit.exe now seems to work without problems or > artifacts and the speed is much more similar to what we achieve under > the Linux platform (read much higher). Glad you manage to do it by yourself. Sorry for not going further with compilation as I promised but the git repository had only a MSVC2008 solution file and I have only MSVC2005 here. I tried to adapt our CMake files to qgit but failed... > > So it seems Qt+mingw is not the _best_ possible solution. I told you that ;-) > > Anyhow, under Vista you cannot simply copy qgit.exe in the git > directory (OS barfs regarding some administrative rights, note that *I > am* the administartor!), so to make qgit.exe work git.exe file must be > in PATH. > > To easy the user and allowing to call qgit.exe double clicking on a > nice desktop icon I need a way to know where git.exe is installed *at > runtime*. > > So my question is: "What is the preferred way to detect git directory > at runtime for msysgit files?" If you use QProcess to launch git, maybe you could just use QProcess::workingDirectory()? Abdel.