Re: Getting current version of MinGW

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 12:16 PM Keith Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 10/03/19 15:59, Test User wrote:
> > MinGW 5.3 is installed on my PC.
>
> If this is so, then you did not get it from us, and it has been
> illegally named, infringing our registered trade mark.  There is no such
> legally named entity as MinGW 5.3.
>

I gave it that name. Everything mingw-related that I have, I got from
www.mingw.org.
> > I downloaded mingw-get, ran mingw-get update
>
> How did you run it?  You give the impression that you ran it from the
> command line, but that would not have shown ...
>
> > and it showed me that the current version of mingw32-gcc is 6.3.0-1.
>
> ... this; perhaps you subsequently saw it in the GUI?  However you have
> determined it, it does suggest that, at some time, you have performed an
> installation of GCC, using mingw-get, at a time when your local copy of
> the mingw-get software catalogue recorded gcc-6.3.0-1 as the current
> version.

Actually, my current version of gcc is 5.3. I ran `mingw-get upgrade' at the
command line and then ran ningw-get with no arguments to see what was
what.

>
> > However, version 8.2.0 is available at mingw.org.  So what is the
> > correct way to install the latest version of MinGW?
>
> Running "mingw-get update", from the command line, (or the equivalent
> "Installation / Update Catalogue" menu pick in the mingw-get GUI), only
> operates on your local copy of the catalogue, bringing it up to date
> with respect to the on-line master catalogue, at either OSDN.net, or
> SF.net, (depending on where your local mingw-get profile points).
>
> GCC-8.2.0 is indeed the current GCC release, and it is installable by
> mingw-get, provided your mingw-get profile points to OSDN.net; (no new
> MinGW packages will be published on SF.net).  To upgrade your existing
> gcc-6.3.0-1 installation, after you have updated the catalogue, you need
> to run "mingw-get upgrade", or the equivalent GUI sequence:
>
>   Installation / Mark All Upgrades
>   Installation / Apply Changes
>
Unfortunately, this did not work. I succeeded only in upgrading from
gcc 5.3 to gcc 6.3.0-1. After that, I ran `mingw-get update' and then
`mingw-get upgrade',which appeared to tell me that all packages were
up to date. I ran the mingw-get GUI and it showed me that the installed
version = current version = gcc 6.3.0-1.

Regards,
Test User,

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