[Mingw-users] Connection keeps dropping when downloading through MingGW.

[Sandeep Devadas]

Hello,

        I am downloading and installing using the latest MinGW-5.1.6.exe and I am having a problem with the download. The connection keeps timing out with the following message."Your connection appears to have dropped out.Reconnect your dial up or check your IE proxy settings." 

         I have created a sourceforge account and my username is dsandie. I have specified my default mirror as mesh solutions too .But even then I keep getting this error message.

Thanks and Regards,

Sandy

[Peter Rockett]

I suspect that is a problem with you network connection rather than the installer.

Also, MinGW-5.1.6 installs an old version of the toolchain + omits the debugger. Try http://sourceforge.net/projects/lunac/ but make sure to update the 'binutils' and 'make' directly from sourceforge.


Peter

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[Jasper Horn]

Hi Sandy,

I was going to write a whole story about how that installer is pretty old and was meant to be replaced by mingw-get and that the problem could be somewhere in that, but a simple test proved me wrong - it just works for me, so probably it's just your connection.

However, do note that the installer is indeed pretty old ad will give you a gcc 3 install. To get a more recent version, you will need to do a manual install, search for automatic install scripts people made or go to another distribution of mingw (TDM and mingw64 both provide installers for recent versions of gcc).

Jasper

[Earnie]

As others have noted, the issue is your connection and also noted is
that the installer you've chosen is old. Please give
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get/mingw-get-0.1-mingw32-alpha-2-bin.zip/download
a try instead.

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[Sandeep Devadas]

The downloaded file only contains mingw-get.exe which does not do anything. Should there be other files also to download?

Regards,

SD

[Jasper Horn]

Sandeep Devadas wrote:
>
> The downloaded file only contains mingw-get.exe which does not do anything. Should there be other files also to download?

Try mingw-get-0.1-mingw32-alpha-2-RELEASE-NOTES.txt, which explains
how to use mingw-get.

Jasper

[Sandeep Devadas]

Where is the Release -Notes .txt file? It is not there in the zip file.

SD

[Jasper Horn]

Sandeep Devadas wrote:
> Where is the Release -Notes .txt file? It is not there in the zip file.

It's in the downloads system, two entries below the zip file.

[Peter Rosin]

Den 2010-08-18 11:53 skrev Jasper Horn:
> Sandeep Devadas wrote:
>> Where is the Release -Notes .txt file? It is not there in the zip file.
>
> It's in the downloads system, two entries below the zip file.

Which isn't a fully helpful description as the OP was given a direct URL...

Sandeep, try:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get/mingw-get-0.1-mingw32-alpha-2-RELEASE-NOTES.txt/download

Cheers,
Peter

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[Sandeep Devadas]

Thanks.