[Mingw-users] Problems installing MinGW on Windows 10

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Earnie earni****@users*****
Sun Jul 15 03:48:56 JST 2018


On 7/13/2018 6:03 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
> On 13/07/18 22:30, David Gressett wrote:
>>> I thought I'd removed the dependency, so that may be a bogus
>>> requirement; will your installed GCC run, if you move
>>> libmingwex-0.dll away?
>>
>> It does not run. I get a popup message box with the title "cc1.exe -
>> System Error"
> 
> Thanks.  That pins down the source of the problem.
> 
>> This is the error text:
>>
>> "The program can't start because libmingwex-0.dll is missing from
>> your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix the problem"
> 
> I just downloaded the gcc-core-6.3.0-1-mingw32-bin tarball, from the SF
> host; it does, indeed, exhibit the libmingwex-0.dll dependency, in both
> cc1.exe, and lto1.exe.  This does not reflect the state of my build
> tree, so it looks like I didn't refresh all the necessary packages,
> after I rebuilt it to remove the dependency.
> 
> Given that gcc-7.3.0 is now available in our OSDN downloads package set,
> and we likely will not be taking gcc-6.3.0 over there, and given that
> the dependency is declared for the SF package set anyway, is it worth
> the effort of refreshing this package set at this juncture?
> 

Undecided but leaning toward we need to update given the following
conjectures.  If someone downloads the setup program from SF will it
point to OSDN for the repositories to install?  If so then I don't think
it's necessary but if not then we should update the broken package.

-- 
Earnie




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