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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:08:36 +0900
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#38845: I'd like to help
Open Date: 2019-01-06 01:04
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Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket:
2019-01-31 05:08 Updated by: ayperor
Comment:
Ok, perhaps the version information was about the early stages of getting it
working and I stopped at gcc.exe (MinGW.org GCC-6.3.0-1) 6.3.0 because I've
also set it up on XP. I sent this in the beginning of January, and did all of
this a couple weeks before so things aren't as fresh as they were but that
wasn't really the main objective of my note. I had a bunch of other points in
there as well but the real point was really the question of "where can I help
out?"
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Ticket details:
I have patched together my copy of MinGW based on a very old install and a lot
of manual downloading (about 3 weeks ago), I know there were a lot of broken
links. My copy works great, I've compiled a ton of libraries into mine. I've
also pulled MSYS2, and setup automounts to MinGW, TDM-MinGW, and MinGW-64. I've
been in IT for over 20 years and I think this project is amazing or at least
can be once again. MinGW-64, and MSYS2 are cool as well, but pacman, although
it works nice if you KNOW the name of the package you want is a pain. i am/was/
have been a Windows programmer for many years, also a Unix admin for several
years, and Windows admin as well. So I have skills across the board, but
recently I've been retraining myself to be all about MinGW as it offers me an
equal development environment between my linux and windows systems. I've been
slowly moving over to Linux as I can't stand Microsoft and I'm so tired of
giving up my whole machine for what Microsoft tools can do when I can do them
for a fraction of the overhead under MinGW. Sorry about the book, but I'm not
sure if/and what kind of help you all need on this so I thought I'd toss in a
little summary. I'm interested in helping on the project. Let me know. my email
address is [email protected]
thanks, Chris
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:41:41 +0000
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#38845: I'd like to help
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Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket:
2019-01-30 20:41 Updated by: keith
Comment:
Reply To ayperor
If I were to pick a starting place for updating the project, I would start
with the broken links, ...
On www.mingw.org? Yes, any that we find do need to be corrected — I've been
correcting any that have been brought to my attention, but I don't have the
time to review every wiki page.
then the documentation, ...
Yep. A wiki seems like a great idea — let the community provide, and maintain
the documentation. All well and good, until the original page authors abandon
their work.
and yes, advertising that this version works on XP can't be a bad thing.
Agreed. Even better ... it should still work on Win9X, (although I no longer
have access to any platform on which to verify this).
Make pkg_config a part of the base install and go from there.
Where does the pkg-config dependency arise?
Where I fit... I left it vague so that I could fall in place where needed.
Let me know what your priorities are and I'm sure I can fit somewhere in
there.
Well, you've already alluded to web-site maintenance (I think). Priorities
there are:–
1. Migrate existing content from Drupal to WordPress ... we already have a
sandbox set up, with a few pages converted, but still many more to go.
2. Set up Let's Encrypt certification, and serve content via https, rather
than http.
On the programming front, there are a number of packages, still languishing on
SourceForge, which need to be migrated to OSDN; in the process, some of those
could probably benefit from updates.
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Ticket details:
I have patched together my copy of MinGW based on a very old install and a lot
of manual downloading (about 3 weeks ago), I know there were a lot of broken
links. My copy works great, I've compiled a ton of libraries into mine. I've
also pulled MSYS2, and setup automounts to MinGW, TDM-MinGW, and MinGW-64. I've
been in IT for over 20 years and I think this project is amazing or at least
can be once again. MinGW-64, and MSYS2 are cool as well, but pacman, although
it works nice if you KNOW the name of the package you want is a pain. i am/was/
have been a Windows programmer for many years, also a Unix admin for several
years, and Windows admin as well. So I have skills across the board, but
recently I've been retraining myself to be all about MinGW as it offers me an
equal development environment between my linux and windows systems. I've been
slowly moving over to Linux as I can't stand Microsoft and I'm so tired of
giving up my whole machine for what Microsoft tools can do when I can do them
for a fraction of the overhead under MinGW. Sorry about the book, but I'm not
sure if/and what kind of help you all need on this so I thought I'd toss in a
little summary. I'm interested in helping on the project. Let me know. my email
address is [email protected]
thanks, Chris
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:15:30 +0900
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#38845: I'd like to help
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Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket:
2019-01-31 06:15 Updated by: ayperor
Comment:
If I were to pick a starting place for updating the project, I would start with
the broken links, ... -The broken links in the config file the mingw-get
uses... There are a bunch of key packages that won't download because of broken
links. Mainly version updates that were not reflected in the file. I can run
thorough a couple of clean installs and find out which links are broken.
then the documentation, ...
There is a small problem in here... Keeping in mind your first reply. Instead
of going to the site and looking for the git, I did a quick google search and
I'm not sure you got a chance to look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from MinGW32)
but it starts out with... MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows), formerly mingw32,
is a free and open source software development
and yes, advertising that this version works on XP can't be a bad thing.
Agreed. Even better ... it should still work on Win9X, (although I no longer
have access to any platform on which to verify this).
-The best I can do is Windows 2000 (I may still have a 98 virtual around, but
I'm not sure)
Make pkg_config a part of the base install and go from there. Turns out that a
lot of people incorporate it when creating libraries. it works like SDL_config,
but not specific to SDL. It creates a pc file which is a library description
file read by pkg_config. A lot of libraries incorporate it, and it makes them
really easy to use in a makefile. I posted a quickie excerpt.
PKGS=sdl SDL_gfx SDL_image /List of packages LVER=lua-5.3.4 CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -W
-I$(LVER)/src pkg-config --cflags $(PKGS) LDLIBS=$(LVER)/src/liblua.a -lm
pkg-config --libs $(PKGS) SDLV=1.2.15
so here is just one of the PKGS listed above manually run... $ pkg-config
--cflags SDL_image -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -Dmain=SDL_main -IC:/MinGW/include/SDL
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Ticket Status:
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Status: Open
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Ticket details:
I have patched together my copy of MinGW based on a very old install and a lot
of manual downloading (about 3 weeks ago), I know there were a lot of broken
links. My copy works great, I've compiled a ton of libraries into mine. I've
also pulled MSYS2, and setup automounts to MinGW, TDM-MinGW, and MinGW-64. I've
been in IT for over 20 years and I think this project is amazing or at least
can be once again. MinGW-64, and MSYS2 are cool as well, but pacman, although
it works nice if you KNOW the name of the package you want is a pain. i am/was/
have been a Windows programmer for many years, also a Unix admin for several
years, and Windows admin as well. So I have skills across the board, but
recently I've been retraining myself to be all about MinGW as it offers me an
equal development environment between my linux and windows systems. I've been
slowly moving over to Linux as I can't stand Microsoft and I'm so tired of
giving up my whole machine for what Microsoft tools can do when I can do them
for a fraction of the overhead under MinGW. Sorry about the book, but I'm not
sure if/and what kind of help you all need on this so I thought I'd toss in a
little summary. I'm interested in helping on the project. Let me know. my email
address is [email protected]
thanks, Chris
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:49:41 +0000
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#38845: I'd like to help
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Last Changes/Comment on this Ticket:
2019-01-30 21:49 Updated by: keith
Comment:
Reply To ayperor
If I were to pick a starting place for updating the project, I would
start with the broken links, ...
The broken links in the config file the mingw-get uses... There are a bunch
of key packages that won't download because of broken links.
I don't understand. There shouldn't be any broken links there. We haven't
removed anything from SourceForge, so unless they've reneged on their promise
to maintain the dl/sf.net redirection capability, (which I certainly wouldn't
put past them), all references to older (unmigrated) packages should remain
valid.
Mainly version updates that were not reflected in the file.
Are you referring to updates for packages which have been migrated to OSDN? If
so, then yes, these will not be reflected in the (abandoned) catalogue on SF.
You must point your catalogue source to OSDN, (as it will be, if you install
mingw-get using the version of the mingw-get-setup.exe tool from OSDN), to keep
up to date, (and thereafter, the links to replaced SF packages cannot persist).
I can run thorough a couple of clean installs and find out which links are
broken.
Please do.
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Ticket details:
I have patched together my copy of MinGW based on a very old install and a lot
of manual downloading (about 3 weeks ago), I know there were a lot of broken
links. My copy works great, I've compiled a ton of libraries into mine. I've
also pulled MSYS2, and setup automounts to MinGW, TDM-MinGW, and MinGW-64. I've
been in IT for over 20 years and I think this project is amazing or at least
can be once again. MinGW-64, and MSYS2 are cool as well, but pacman, although
it works nice if you KNOW the name of the package you want is a pain. i am/was/
have been a Windows programmer for many years, also a Unix admin for several
years, and Windows admin as well. So I have skills across the board, but
recently I've been retraining myself to be all about MinGW as it offers me an
equal development environment between my linux and windows systems. I've been
slowly moving over to Linux as I can't stand Microsoft and I'm so tired of
giving up my whole machine for what Microsoft tools can do when I can do them
for a fraction of the overhead under MinGW. Sorry about the book, but I'm not
sure if/and what kind of help you all need on this so I thought I'd toss in a
little summary. I'm interested in helping on the project. Let me know. my email
address is [email protected]
thanks, Chris
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2019-01-30 22:01 Updated by: keith
Comment:
Reply To ayperor
There is a small problem in here... Keeping in mind your first reply.
Instead of going to the site and looking for the git, I did a quick google
search and I'm not sure you got a chance to look at https://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW
Well, all that disinformation is beyond our control ... we don't have the
resources to police all the rubbish, (and lies), which may get posted on
Wikipedia, or similar sites.
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Ticket details:
I have patched together my copy of MinGW based on a very old install and a lot
of manual downloading (about 3 weeks ago), I know there were a lot of broken
links. My copy works great, I've compiled a ton of libraries into mine. I've
also pulled MSYS2, and setup automounts to MinGW, TDM-MinGW, and MinGW-64. I've
been in IT for over 20 years and I think this project is amazing or at least
can be once again. MinGW-64, and MSYS2 are cool as well, but pacman, although
it works nice if you KNOW the name of the package you want is a pain. i am/was/
have been a Windows programmer for many years, also a Unix admin for several
years, and Windows admin as well. So I have skills across the board, but
recently I've been retraining myself to be all about MinGW as it offers me an
equal development environment between my linux and windows systems. I've been
slowly moving over to Linux as I can't stand Microsoft and I'm so tired of
giving up my whole machine for what Microsoft tools can do when I can do them
for a fraction of the overhead under MinGW. Sorry about the book, but I'm not
sure if/and what kind of help you all need on this so I thought I'd toss in a
little summary. I'm interested in helping on the project. Let me know. my email
address is [email protected]
thanks, Chris
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