Re: [Mingw-users] How do I install current release binaries?

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2007-09-20 13:37Z, Dieter Rogiest wrote:
> As the Automated MinGW Installer  MinGW-5.1.3 installed old releases I 
> downloaded these current releases:
> mingw-runtime-3.13-20070825-1.tar.gz
> binutils-2.17.50-20060824-1.tar.gz
> gcc-g77-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz
> gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz
> gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-1.tar.gz

I think you'll also want w32api.

> But how do I install them?
> I guessed I just have to unpack them in WinXP with 7-Zip into 
>  C:\Devel\MinGW.

There are many archive-extraction programs out there. Not all
are suitable for this purpose: e.g., 'winzip' is known to
change '\n' line-endings by default. I don't know whether or
not '7-zip' has that problem or any other. I do know that
'tar' and 'gzip' do the right thing.

> Some files get overwritten, others remain.

The order in which you extract the archives does matter.
Personally, I dislike GUI installers, so I use my own process:

http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/lmi/install_mingw.make?root=lmi

The comments in that file explain the steps to get a working
installation, manually, from individually-downloaded files.
(Or, if you feel comfortable modifying makefiles yourself and
find it suitable for your purposes, just add your own file
list including g77 and execute it.)

> I suppose it can do no harm 
> that a few old files remain inside C:\Devel\MinGW, or can it ?

Wouldn't the base directory contain nothing but licenses?