[Mingw-users] [SOLVED] Getting current version of MinGW

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Test User testu****@gmail*****
Tue Mar 12 12:59:15 JST 2019


On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 10:07 PM Test User <testu****@gmail*****> wrote:

> >
> Unfortunately, this did not work. I succeeded only in upgrading from
> gcc 5.3 to gcc 6.3.0-1. After that, I ran `mingw-get update' and then
> `mingw-get upgrade',which appeared to tell me that all packages were
> up to date. I ran the mingw-get GUI and it showed me that the installed
> version = current version = gcc 6.3.0-1.
>

It seems that the file originally called profile.xml (in
/MinGW/var/lib/mingw-get/data/)
was renamed as defaults.xml in later versions of mingw-get, but the
current mingw-get reads profile.xml even if defaults.xml exists. I edited my
profile.xml like this:

 <!-- <repository
uri="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/%F.xml.lzma?download">
-->
  <repository uri="http://osdn.net/dl/mingw/%F.xml.lzma">

and mingw-get now tells me that the installed gcc version is 6.3 and the
repository version is 8.2.

Regards,
Test User.



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