Hello Clive, I had that same problem yesterday. I think it's because one of the maintainer was updating the content on the download site while we were installing. I removed my c:\mingw directory and reinstalled and the problem went away. Regards, John On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 5:51 PM Clive Lansink <clive****@lansi*****> wrote: > Hello. > > I am installing Mingw for the first time. After downloading the setup tool > and doing the initial install, I used Mingw-get command line, as follows: > mingw-get install mingw32-base > and got a whole bunch of stuff back while it did all the installs. I did > see some warnings however but they flashed by quickly. So I repeated the > install so it would only display stuff for things not installed, and I got > the following: > mingw-get: *** WARNING *** > http://osdn.net/dl/mingw/libisl-0.18-1-mingw32-dll-15.tar.xz: opened with > unexpected status: > code = 404 > mingw-get: *** WARNING *** please report this to the mingw-get maintainer > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** Get package: > http://osdn.net/dl/mingw/libisl-0.18-1-mingw32-dll-15.tar.xz: download > failed > mingw-get: *** WARNING *** > http://osdn.net/dl/mingw/libisl-0.18-1-mingw32-dll-15.tar.xz: opened with > unexpected status: > code = 404 > mingw-get: *** WARNING *** please report this to the mingw-get maintainer > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** Get package: > http://osdn.net/dl/mingw/libisl-0.18-1-mingw32-dll-15.tar.xz: download > failed > install: libisl-0.18-1-mingw32-dll-15.tar.xz > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** required package file is not available > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** cannot install libisl-0.18-1-mingw32-dll-15.tar.xz > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** due to previous download failure > install: mingw32-base-2013072200-mingw32-bin.meta > mingw-get: *** ERROR *** package mingw32-base-2013072200-mingw32-bin.meta > is already installed > > So I think this is telling me that a package mingw32-libisl cannot be > found. I see this package listed in the huge list of packages I get when I > do mingw-get list but it seems to be missing. > > I am trying to compile my first C program and a dialog pops up to say > execution can't proceed because it can't find file libisl-15.dll. I suspect > this is part of the missing package. > > Can someone please help me fix this problem? If the package is genuinely > missing or filed in the wrong place so mingw-get can't find it, then I need > someone to fix that please and I can install again. But is there anything I > can do from my end to get around this problem? > > Thanks for any help. > > > Clive Lansink > Email: Clive****@Lansi***** > Phone: +64 9 520-4242 > Mobile: +64 21 663-999 > Fax: +64 21 789-150 > > _______________________________________________ > MinGW-Users mailing list > MinGW****@lists***** > > This list observes the Etiquette found at > http://www.mingw.org/Mailing_Lists. > We ask that you be polite and do the same. Disregard for the list > etiquette may cause your account to be moderated. > > _______________________________________________ > You may change your MinGW Account Options or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/listinfo/mingw-users > Also: mailto:mingw****@lists*****?subject=unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.osdn.me/mailman/archives/mingw-users/attachments/20181229/3e149d43/attachment.html>