[Mingw-users] the link don't download...!!!

[Paolo M. <pao...@ti...>]

The link (in your first mail sended to me) don't allow to download the
package. The download start, but, after 5/6 seconds, the message: "completed
download". But it is not correct! What i do? There are others links ftp: or
mirrors? Thanks.

Paolo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Oscar Fuentes" <of...@wa...>
To: <min...@li...>; <pao...@ti...>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] an italian non-see programmer


> "Paolo Mondadori" <pao...@ti...> writes:
>
> > Hello. I'd like download mingw to use it as my C/C++ compiler becouse
the
> > people think very good about this compiler.
> > But i have much confusion! I beleave that mingw is a port of GCC under
x386
> > systems as Win32 platforms; it is correct?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Or i mistake? What also? Please,
> > can you tell me the rest?!?
>
> This is what www.mingw.org says:
>
> "MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable
> Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU
> toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not
> rely on any 3rd-party DLLs."
>
> The GNU toolsets are mainly gcc (the compiler) and binutils (linker,
> assembler and other tools)
>
> > Navigate with a voice syntetizer only is very very difficult; for
> > example i don't understand where link i have to click to download
> > (allwise - the updates) the latest stable version of mingw and its
> > standard (also not standard as graphics ... medias ...)
> > library/s. Can you indicate me it (the path) to download them?
>
> Here is the direct link to the 2.0 MinGW release. This package
> contains all what you need (except for a text editor) for creating
> Win32 applications:
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-2.0.0-3.exe
>
> You don't need the updates to get started, but if you insist on
> downloading them, this page contains direct links to the archives:
>
> http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
>
> Please note that the updates are published as compressed tar archives
> (a kind of zip files popular on unix environments). Winzip can
> uncompress them. The MinGW 2.0 package mentioned above is a windows
> installer.
>
> > I need also a simple (not under DOS, i need for Windows because under
DOS
> > the syntetizer...many many problems!) editor (or IDE if exist but if it
is
> > simple only, "lite!"); the perfect editor could be mainten the concept
of
> > rows and columns but that is a Windows (98) application. It exsists?
> > Where?
>
> There are lots of editors available. I use Emacs, which is far from
> being "simple", so I can't recommend it for you. A good text editor
> for MinGW should be capable of parsing the error messages emitted by
> the gcc compiler.
>
> > I have also very confusion becouse i read that Dev-C++ use the mingw 3.2
> > compiler, but if i go to sourceforge mingw-project to download the
latest
> > version, i read that the latest version is 2.0.... Why?? I don't think!
>
> As said above, MinGW is more than a compiler. The parts that
> constitutes MinGW are relased as a single package. This package has a
> version number. The latest is 2.0. However, each of those individual
> parts has its own serial numbers. The compiler (gcc) has version
> number 3.2.
>
> > Excuse me for my very bad english and for my unknowledge about
free-C/C++
> > programming! I am a professional programmer but for mainframes!
> >
> > What are msys, bin utils and...
>
> From www.ming.org again:
>
> "MSYS: A Minimal SYStem to provide POSIX/Bourne configure scripts the
> ability to execute and create a Makefile used by make."
>
> If you don't understand the above explanation, you don't need
> MSYS. MinGW is independent from MSYS. No need to download MSYS.
>
> > What i have to really download to easy install and use mingw
> > compiler with its standard library/s without i must download several
> > correlated packages to assemble??
>
> As mentioned above, just download the MinGW package.
>
> > And a decent and easy editor and debugger (project managers, etc
> > etc...are only big problems for my screen reader (JAWS)!)??
>
> If you want an IDE, just download Dev-C++. It comes with MinGW
> included and seems to contain everything you need.
>
> > thank you very much for your attention and i hope to receive hearly
> > your response
>
> You're welcome.
>
> > PS: what is/are CVS?? I often see it but i don't understand what it
> > is/are!
>
> This is from the CVS manual:
>
> http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_1.html#SEC2
>
> --
> Oscar
>