How do I invoke LaTeX with the -shell-escape flag in MikTex?

Question

I am trying to use the minted package but get the error

! Package minted Error: You must invoke LaTeX with the -shell-escape flag.

I am using MikTex and have tried going into Edit/Preferences and clicking on PdfLatex+MakeIndex+BibTex and adding -shell-escape (and also trying --shell-escape) to the arguments but then the compiler does not run at all and I get

ERROR: MiKTeX encountered an internal error.
ERROR: Info: 
ERROR: Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Session/SessionImpl.h
ERROR: Line: 640
Sorry, but "MiKTeX Compiler Driver" did not succeed.

I linked a possible duplicate. Let us know if that is different from your question. — Dr. Manuel Kuehner, Jun 24 '21 at 20:54
It is still unclear which TeX editor you use or are you configuring the MiKTeX console? — Dr. Manuel Kuehner, Jun 25 '21 at 01:25

Martin V · Answer 1 · 2021-06-25T18:05:49.133

After a little more searching, I found that if I went into Edit/Preferences/typesetting, clicked on PdfLatex+MakeIndex+BibTex and added

--tex-option=--shell-escape

as the first argument, then it got over this error.

However, now MikTex is telling me

! Package minted Error: You must have `pygmentize' installed to use this package.

I assume it means 'pygments', as I can find nothing on 'pygmentize'. This is most frustrating as pygments is installed and I put the folder the distribution is in on the PATH.

I shall have to ask this as a different question!

New question here.

How do I invoke LaTeX with the -shell-escape flag in MikTex?

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