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#Mingw installation manager install
Move this file to a more permanent location, so that you can install MinGW (and reinstall it later, if necessary). Click the Download mingw-get-setup.exe (86.5 kB) link. To see an index for the repository catalogue. The following page will appear in your browser (from the SourceForge web site).
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To filter on only those packages which are installed locally, or $ mingw-get-info index To see current status for all available packages, $ mingw-get-info installed From the comments on that page the script will generate a number of reports: $ mingw-get-info all This script is not an official MinGW tool and seems to only exist as an attachment to the linked bug report. Download mingw-get-info and copy it to /mingw/bin. To list packages that are already installed there is a nifty little script that can be found here. These commands will show you all the packages available whether they are already installed or not. Or to make the output a little nicer: $ grep "package name=" /mingw/var/lib/mingw-get/data/*.xml | $ grep "package name" /mingw/var/lib/mingw-get/data/*.xml One method I found is to look in the catalog file. There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to list packages that can be installed with mingw-get. This lead me to the question, what additional packages are actually available this way? Cygwin provides a nice GUI to pick and choose packages and of course there are the various package managers available for the many Linux distros.
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The easiest way to install these utilities is through mingw-get. I had a need to create zip files recently however zip and unzip are not included in the base MinGW installation. MinGW is standard equipment on any new Windows computer I need to use which includes most of the tools I use regularly. If something here does not work for you or if you have some other useful pointers let me know and I’ll update this post. This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive tutorial on everything you can do with mingw-get but rather a place for me to document some tips that I found Googling and felt I should consolidate here.