On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:11:56PM -0500, Earnie wrote: > On 1/14/2019 3:53 AM, Philippe De Muyter wrote: >> Hello, >> I am a first time user of mingw (in order to compile for ms-windows a >> package originally written for gnu/linux). So I downloaded the current >> version of mingw, but using it always fails with : >> "C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe: could not create temporary file whilst writing >> archive: no more archived files" >> Looking at the archives of the mailing list, I have seen >> - that I am not the only one having that problem >> - that it is maybe related to a mkstemp problem introduced in mingwrt-5.2 >> Now my question(s) : >> - How can I install an older version (of mingwrt-5.2, or of the whole >> mingw installation) ? >> - Alternatively, will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package be released in the >> coming days ? > > See this thread about this issue[1]. > > [1] > https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/lists/archive/users/2019-January/000215.html I had already read it, hence my questions : is the ar.exe problem related to the mkstemp problem, and in that case will a fixed mingwrt-5.2 package be released in the coming days ? I am not feeling able to compile mingwrt easily myself :( Philippe
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