On 1/14/2019 3:53 AM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > Hello, > > I am a first time user of mingw (in order to compile for ms-windows a > package originally written for gnu/linux). So I downloaded the current > version of mingw, but using it always fails with : > > "C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe: could not create temporary file whilst writing > archive: no more archived files" > > Looking at the archives of the mailing list, I have seen > - that I am not the only one having that problem > - that it is maybe related to a mkstemp problem introduced in mingwrt-5.2 > > Now my question(s) : > > - How can I install an older version (of mingwrt-5.2, or of the whole > mingw installation) ? > - Alternatively, will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package be released in the > coming days ? > See this thread about this issue[1]. [1] https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2019-January/000215.html -- Earnie