Can't start Emacs with Prelude (Windows)

Question

I successfully installed Emacs and Prelude on my Windows 10 machine. I had the following error during the setup that was fixed by adding Emacs to the path:

Emacs not found. Skipping byte-compilation.

While the above issue was resolved (see comments) and Prelude finally found Emacs during installation, when I run emacs or runemacs commands, vanilla Emacs starts. Prelude is ignored. When I try to start server using emacs --daemon, all I see is the "Starting Emacs daemon." message and no other prelude-related loading messages.

How do I make Emacs start with Prelude?

I have no problems running Emacs with Prelude on Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

Answer 1

curl installed Prelude in .emacs.d folder under my user directory which is also set to be my home directory - C:\Users\me.

The problem was that there was another instance of .emacs.d configs in C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming. The latter was the default one. I added it to the PATH, moved Emacs folder (not sure if that was needed at all) to theC:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming as well.

Now I could run emacs command that opened Emacs w/ Prelude, however, this isn't my preferred way. I still couldn't start daemon server because my input to "Continue connection?" question wasn't registered. The fix is described here -https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/34781/emacs-daemon-hangs-on-first-run-on-emacs-25-2