Keith Marshall to Eli Zaretskii: > > Once the package files are downloaded, I just unpack > > them one by one from the root of my MinGW installation > > directory. Let me know if you need some details, or if > > there are specific problems you bump into. > > Thanks, Eli. I think the OP had already figured out what > to do. Yes, even as I wrote in my previous post from the 6th of March, and I have not checked this mailing list since. I am, however, still interested in maintaining a MinGW installation on Windows XP without resort to external machines with newer Windowses. Eli, do I understand you correctly that after I extract the packages preserving the paths relatively the MinGW root, they will be considered installed, or will it only let mingw-get prefer their local copy while installing instead of trying to download it? I fear simply putting the files at correct locations is not always sufficient for proper installation, as some metadata may need to be updated e.g. for build systems to detect available libraries. I see many downloaded pacakges under var\cache\mingw-get\packages\ Perhaps I can manually fill that directory, and the MinGW installer will use it? By the way, you might be intereseted in modern browsers specially adapted for Windows XP: Pale Moon, Mypal, and Extreme Explorer. I also want to thank Keith for supporting older Windows versions.
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