Re: [Mingw-users] Problems with installing MingW

[Jonathan M. <jma...@fa...>]

Willem Mostert wrote:

> I am getting the following error when installing MingW. Is there anyway of getting around this problem?

> Extracting w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
> untgz::extract -d 'C:\MinGW' -z 'C:\Documents and Settings\Willem\My Documents\Downloads\w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz' 
> tgz_extract: bad header checksum
> Error: Failure reading from tarball.

I suggest that you download the file w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
again, the copy you have now is apparently corrupt or incomplete.
Deleting it and re-downloading should take care of this.

Jonathan