From: Patrick G. <pa...@pa...> - 2009-11-10 15:00:44
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Chris,<br> <br> I tried with winzip but it complained that the .lzma files (from sourceforge) where corrupt. (see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://img.skitch.com/20091110-cqpiwnai6g5ga5ib95isgtr9s4.jpg">http://img.skitch.com/20091110-cqpiwnai6g5ga5ib95isgtr9s4.jpg</a>)<br> <br> But on Linux, no problem decompressing this on Linux:<br> <br> patg@ishvara:~$ lzma -d automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar.lzma <br> patg@ishvara:~$ ls automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar <br> automake-1.11-1-msys-1.0.11-bin.tar<br> <br> So, the one thing I haven't figured out is what MinGW Ports is and how to use it. Is it like Darwin Ports where you can specify a package to install, the package is then fetched and then installed?<br> <br> Also, do folks have tools such as autoconf, libtool, etc running on Mingw? I tried compiling libtool from gnu.org and had no luck. Are the tools as packaged on the mingw site modified for cross compiling?<br> <br> Thanks!<br> <br> Patrick<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Chris Sutcliffe wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:2bf...@ma..." type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Today even .zip files can use bzip2 and lzma compression. For lzma you need WinZip >= 12. Total Commander (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ghisler.com">http://www.ghisler.com</a>) supports also .zip files with bzip2 or lzma compression, so you can browse these packages as a normal file system. There is also a TC plugin for .bz2 files. There is unfortunately no plugin for .lzma files yet. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""><!----> 7-zip also does a nice job of handling them. Chris </pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> |