How to install mingw-w64 packages into a machine or docker image?

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Hi all!

Converting from Travis, one of our builds requires the use of the MinGW-w64 dev tools (installed under Linux) to do its job.

I tried various ways to install mingw-related packages into the (ubuntu) images, but
no go… no such packages can be found.

The logs show:

sudo apt-get install -y mingw-w64

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package mingw-w64

What are the correct package names? I am a debian user myself,
and never actually used ubuntu …

Thanks,

Fred

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A first ‘quick’ idea - do ‘sudo apt-get update’ first.

Beyond that, which image are you working with? That error can be reported if the correct repository is not included in /etc/apt/sources.list and it may be that the team that defines the images have changed the list.

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Hi:

Yeah, am already doing the update etc.

Images tried are cimg:base, ubuntu-220:current.

Thanks!

Fred

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Can you try the following as mingw-w64 manages to install when I run this configuration. It may be quicker to debug your issue if we have a simple test configuration to compare against.

version: 2.1

executors:

  hosted_node:
    machine:
      image: ubuntu-2204:current
    resource_class: medium
    
jobs:
  build:
    executor: hosted_node
    steps:
      - run: sudo apt-get install -y mingw-w64
      
workflows:
  build-and-deploy:
    jobs:
      - build

For me the output of the apt-get command is

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  squashfs-tools
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  binutils-mingw-w64-i686 binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64
  g++-mingw-w64-i686 g++-mingw-w64-i686-posix g++-mingw-w64-i686-win32
  g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32
  gcc-mingw-w64 gcc-mingw-w64-base gcc-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-mingw-w64-i686-posix
  gcc-mingw-w64-i686-posix-runtime gcc-mingw-w64-i686-win32
  gcc-mingw-w64-i686-win32-runtime gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64
  gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix-runtime
  gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32 gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32-runtime
  mingw-w64-common mingw-w64-i686-dev mingw-w64-x86-64-dev
Suggested packages:
  gcc-10-locales wine wine64
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  binutils-mingw-w64-i686 binutils-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64
  g++-mingw-w64-i686 g++-mingw-w64-i686-posix g++-mingw-w64-i686-win32
  g++-mingw-w64-x86-64 g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32
  gcc-mingw-w64 gcc-mingw-w64-base gcc-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-mingw-w64-i686-posix
  gcc-mingw-w64-i686-posix-runtime gcc-mingw-w64-i686-win32
  gcc-mingw-w64-i686-win32-runtime gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64
  gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix-runtime
  gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32 gcc-mingw-w64-x86-64-win32-runtime mingw-w64
  mingw-w64-common mingw-w64-i686-dev mingw-w64-x86-64-dev
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5

Bingo!

I had mostly a similar config, buttttttt: also had a

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

after the apt upgrade/install, nixing the package lists. That I think came from an
example I used as a base. Removing that (obviously…) kinda helped a lot :wink:

On to now trying to find a working solution for Discord notifications, sigh!

Thanks!

Fred