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 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. > However, version 8.2.0 is avail****@mingw*****. 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 Alternatively, if you don't want to upgrade everything in one fell swoop, you may select individual packages for upgrade, in the GUI, before the "Apply Changes" step, or you can specify a list of package name arguments to the "mingw-get upgrade package ..." CLI command. -- Regards, Keith. Public key available from keys.gnupg.net Key fingerprint: C19E C018 1547 DE50 E1D4 8F53 C0AD 36C6 347E 5A3F -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20190310/af4c7319/attachment.sig>
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