Re: [Mingw-users] Latest version of mingw

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Me Myself and I wrote:
> 
> The install file
>  
> mingw-get-0.3-mingw32-alpha-1-bin
>  

Was it the .zip version or the .tar.gz version?

> containing mingw-get
> doesn't execute from my Windows 7 command prompt at
> mingw-get install
> and complains that it is missing a configuration file.
>  

You should have a directory var/lib/mingw-get/data that contains a
defaults.xml file in it.  The complaint is due to the fact that you did
not copy the defaults.xml file to profile.xml in the same directory.
The command ``mingw-get install'' doesn't do anything because you didn't
state what to install.

> So I turn to a previous version,
> mingw-get-inst-20100909.
>  

To update the to the current version, do:

mingw-get update
mingw-get install mingw-get

Then the next release of mingw-get you can do:

mingw-get update
mingw-get upgrade mingw-get

> However this file doesn't seem to install in Windows 7
> without giving me permission denied errors whenever
> I try to remove a file.
> How might I solve the latter, if the former isn't entirely up and running
> and possible for use?

You'll need to modify your environment to control the permissions of the
files.  How, I don't know, I'm still using 32bit XP.

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