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User forums => Help => Topic started by: CBuser5962 on July 17, 2019, 09:45:11 pm
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Hi,
I've just installed the last (stable) version of CB 17.12 for Windows (W10 64-bits 1903) with MingW. I tried to install the libraries that I need via DevPak update/installer plugin but I get always the same error after configuring the plugin : "Error downloading list of mirrors". See the following screenshot…
How could I fix the probleme to have access to the list of updated libraries please ?
Regards,
Christophe.
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I'm not sure this dev-pak thing is still actively maintained... At least from the list of files I couldn't see anything updated in the last 10 years.
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I'm not sure this dev-pak thing is still actively maintained... At least from the list of files I couldn't see anything updated in the last 10 years.
A long time ago; I posted what I did to try to make it work. But, the websites that support devpaks was dying out back then.
This link has 5 year old devpaks; so, it survived for a while.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/devpacks/files/ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/devpacks/files/)
Tim S.
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Thank you Tim for your answer.
How to proceed to update the list of mirrors for the DevPak plugin installed with CB 17.12 please ? I think some configuration have to been modified, but what files in what directories please ?
Christophe.
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http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,14434.msg97584.html#msg97584 (http://forums.codeblocks.org/index.php/topic,14434.msg97584.html#msg97584)
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Tim,
There was no devpak_mirrors.cfg in my "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\codeblocks" directory. Then, I created a text file named "devpak_mirrors.cfg". I modified the content with :
[WebUpdate mirrors]
Dev-C++ primary devpak server=http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dev-cpp/
devpaks.org Community Devpaks=http://devpaks.sourceforge.net/
Aved Devpaks Collecion =http://hivelocity.dl.sourceforge.net/project/devpacks/
wxDev-C++ DevPak server=http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/webupdate/
Sof.T's DevPak server=http://wxdevcpp-book.sourceforge.net/packages/
Only the last one seems to respond with a list of very limited libraries that I don't use. I mainly used CONIO2 Library…
Christophe.
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For newer packet manager i would recommand mingw64 with pacman on windows. This thing is great...
If you want to distribute your applications it is a bit more work, but should also be manageable...
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To CB Devs:
I suggest not building Devpack by default in the CB Projects.
And, I suggest the next release not include the DevPack plugin.
Tim S.
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If someone want to remove it, I'll review the patch. I have no time now to remove it myself.