On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ruben Van Boxem <vanboxem.ru...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/2/22 Suresh Govindachar <sgovindac...@yahoo.com> >> >> Kai Tietz wrote: >> >2011/2/22 Suresh Govindachar <sgovindac...@yahoo.com>: >> >>Kai Tietz wrote: >> >>>2011/2/22 Suresh Govindachar <sgovindac...@yahoo.com>: >> >>>> >> >>>> ... would like to download and install files of >> >>>> mingw-64 using the method indicated in: >> >>>> >> >>>> >> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-how-does-one-mass-download-MinGW-packages--p25524236.html >> >>>> ... >> >>> ... >> >>> The simplest way to get them all at once is by >> >>> downloading on of our automated source tarballs, >> >>> or by checking out sources via svn by >> >>> 'svn co >> https://mingw-w64.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mingw-w64/trunk mingw-w64 ' >> >>> ... >> >> >> >> Sorry I wasn't clear; by "files" I meant binaries and >> >> necessary include files, etc.: >> >> >> >> <target: mingw-w64> * >> >> <type: bin> * >> >> <host: mingw64 in Windows 7 64bit on Core 2 Duo> >> >> >> >> I plan to use the pre-built executables, libraries, include >> >> files etc. to build things like perl modules and vim. >> >> >> >> (I have used the "regular" mingw on Windows XP to successfully >> >> build vim; I have built perl modules on linux; this will be >> >> my first attempt at building perl modules on Windows.) >> >> ... >> > >> > Ah, ok :) If you are trying to figure out what to download >> > then you should take a look at this wiki page, it should >> > provide you with a good start (or completly confuse you) >> > >> > >> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/download%20filename%20structure >> > >> > You can also download the personal builds we provide. They >> > are in mostly compiled with additional libraries providing >> > additional optimizations for gcc. >> > ... >> >> The files I need to download can be found by going to some top >> level directory and issuing the command: >> >> find . -name "mingw-w64*bin*mingw64*" >> >> If I knew the output of the above command, I could provide that >> as an input to wget on my machine. >> >> Other people would need a different family or collection of files. >> So, more generally, if there were a web-page that just listed the >> output of: >> >> find . >> >> then people could parse that list to come up with the collection >> of files they needed. >> >> I believe there is an automated build and update of sourceforge >> web-pages that happens daily. But to browse what is available >> from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/, one needs >> to click on an folder-item, which brings up a new web-page with >> more folder-items, one clicks on yet another specific folder, and >> so on till one ends up with a list of files. >> >> So please consider having a web-page with just the latest output >> of "find ." ( or "find . | grep -v SVN | xargs ls -laF" or "ls >> -laFR | grep -v SVN" etc.). >> >> Thanks, >> > > Well, You'll have to take that up with Sourceforge.net I fear. The download > page is just a standard page Sourceforge.net provides. I also fail to see > why you'd need every binary build. Each build contains everything you > need... nothing is seperated (except in the Cygwin builds, but that's to > comply with Cygwin packaging conventions/rules). The mingw-w64 packages > aren't split up like the mingw.org ones. > > Ruben > > PS: you can also link directly to a subfolder of the <url>/files directory, > so you save a few clicks. > PS2: you can also write a script that tries to download each file of the > format you need, looping over the dates, which would, due to the nice > filename structure mingw-w64 binary packages adhere to, work quite nicely.
Just to add on to what Ruben is getting at, you could also ftp into any SF mirror and download stuff in bulk that way. But again, you shouldn't need to download EVERY binary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
