Commit d1273df2 authored by Carles Cufi's avatar Carles Cufi Committed by Anas Nashif
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doc: getting_started: Add note for Windows env vars 



Some users might want to inherit their already existing Windows
environment variables into the MSYS2 system. This note explains how to
achieve this.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCarles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
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doc/getting_started/installation_win.rst

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        Make sure you start ``MSYS2 MSYS Shell``, not ``MSYS2 MinGW Shell``.



   .. note::



        If you need to inherit the existing Windows environment variables into

        MSYS2 you will need to create a **Windows** environment variable like so::

        ``MSYS2_PATH_TYPE=inherit``.



   .. note::

        There are multiple ``export`` statements in this tutorial. You can avoid

        typing them every time by placing them at the bottom of your

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