[Mingw-users] Problems installing MinGW on Windows 10

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Earnie earni****@users*****
Fri Jul 13 22:57:36 JST 2018


On 7/12/2018 6:55 PM, a.ver****@katam***** wrote:
> I hope I'm writing in the correct place.
> 

Yes, this is correct.

> I have some problems when installing MinGW on Windows 10.
> 
> The first time I choosed not to install support for the graphical user 
> interface, unchecking the first box.
> After a short time the process ended with the message:
> 
> "Catalogue update completed; please check 'Details' pane for errors"
> "Processed 113 of 113 item: 100%"
> 
> In the 'Details' pane there where no error messages but only ordinary 
> ones:
> 
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking 
> mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-bin.tar.xz
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking 
> mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-lic.tar.xz
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking 
> mingw-get-setup-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-dll.tar.xz
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: unpacking 
> mingw-get-setup-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-xml.tar.xz
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: updating installation database
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: register 
> mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-bin.tar.xz
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: register 
> mingw-get-0.6.2-mingw32-beta-20131004-1-lic.tar.xz
> mingw-get: *** INFO *** setup: installation database updated
> 
> However the "Continue" button was inactive, so I had to quit the 
> installation.
> I repeated this step many times without any change.
> 

Keith will have to comment on this.

> Then I try to check the box and install the support for the graphical 
> user interface: this time the first passege terminated correctly and I 
> came to the graphic interface of the Installation manager; I choosed a 
> "basic setup" installing everzthing but ada and fortran. The process 
> terminated in a reasonable time, without any error message.
> 
> I tried to test the program with a sample program, so I opened a 
> command shell and typed:
> 
> \MinGW\bin\gcc sample.c -o sample.exe
> 
> Then appeared an alert box with the message (I translate from italian: 
> "code execution cannot procede because libmingwex-0.dll. To solve the 
> problem, try to reinstall the program".
> 
> I reistall the program may times, with different component selection, 
> but the conclusion was always the same.
> 
> am I doing something wrong?

I'll guess that you need to add C:\MinGW\bin to your PATH variable.  If
that doesn't help you'll need to share your sample.c file.

-- 
Earnie




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