Re: Project status and windows installer

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From: Keith Marshall <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [MinGW-Users] Project status and windows installer
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On 29/05/2022 12:31, [email protected] wrote:
> reading on Wikipedia this is your main project website:
> https://mingw.osdn.io/
>=20
> Am I right?

Yes.

> The link to the "Downloads" section is dead.
> https://mingw.osdn.io/index.html?page=3Ddownload.html

The content for that tab has yet to be written.  In the absence of
volunteers, to assist with the recreation of content from the now
defunct MinGW.org wiki, it is likely to remain that way, until I get
around to it, which may take some indeterminate length of time.

> I know there is also a SourceForge repo. Is this you or a fork?

If you mean https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ that is our
old file distribution store.  It hasn't been updated since interference
by SourceForge management, in our ability to effectively manage our own
project, made our continued use of their services untenable.  However,
due to package maintainer inertia, some of our packages remain there.

For our newest packages, you should first look, in order, to

   https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/releases/
   https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/storage/

but, if what you are looking for isn't there, then it probably hasn't
been moved from SourceForge yet.

> It seams that the Windows installer has a problem and often fails with
> "incorrect downloaded" messages. There are a lot of workarounds around
> in the net.

You will need to be a lot more specific about whatever problems you are
experiencing with the installer.  Personally, I have not observed *any*
problems, running the latest version, as installed by running

   https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/downloads/68260/mingw-get-setup.exe/

on Windows-7, (and it should work equally well on any newer version of
Windows).  If you are trying to run it on Win-XP, or earlier, or if you
are trying to run an older version of the installer, (particularly any
version downloaded from SourceForge), then you can expect problems; as
written, the installer relies on Microsoft's WININET.DLL, and on Win-XP
and earlier, the supplied version of that library is no longer fit for
purpose, in conjunction with contemporary internet technologies.

Once again, this limitation is unlikely to be resolved, unless someone
steps forward, and volunteers to rework the internet access API, as it
is implemented for the mingw-get installer.

> My problem is that I can not get my admin to do all this workarounds. I=

> have to be lucky if he say "yes" to simply(!) install mingw for me. I
> need it for the OrgRoam package in Emacs which compiles it sqlite-thing=

> by itself.

Perhaps you could persuade your administrator to provide a C:\MinGW
hierarchy, and give you sufficient privilege to install into it?  (I
came to such an arrangement with the administrator, in my erstwhile
employment, so that I could administer my own MinGW installation).

> I couldn't find an open ticket about the installer problem. Did I miss
> one?

I don't know.  Without more explicit details of your particular problem,
it is difficult to advise.

--=20
Regards,
Keith.

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