trying to setup dev environment on windows 10

[needbrew]

was trying to compile the source code on windows 10 and cannot get the MinGW for Windows to install.  fails with a  cannot download repositry.txt

• error.  Any ideas?

[Gilrock]

No idea.  Are you following this below?  Just need to select 5.3 on the install think I forgot to say that.  Several of us have done it.  Maybe check whether you have any anti-virus blocking what the install program is trying to do.

     Download and install the ming-w64-install.exe file from here:
        Navigate to: http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download
        Click the Mingw-builds option then click on the SourceForge link.
        Download should begin after 5 seconds.
        Run the install file and select "i686" architecture, Posix threads, and Dwarf exceptions.

[needbrew]

I am.  I download it and when I try and run it to install I get that error.  Never gets to the option to pick anything.

[Gilrock]

I'm on Windows 10 just to rule that out.

[needbrew]

FYI was able to get it to compile finally. 

[dkulp]

If there are any suggestions or changes needed for the README, please let us know.  Making the process as easy as possible is important so if you ran into any issues, we'd love to get the docs fixed.

[needbrew]

The only thing I would add is to make sure that people are right clicking and selecting the run as administrator when installing on windows.  that appears to be the issue with the ming-w64-install.exe.  Also in section d) it states to Make sure you set the build target to MinGW_Debug or MinGW_Release!  That should be on a separate line to make that point clear.  I missed that and was getting VS 2010 errors until I changed that.  Now to dust off my c++ brain and look at the code.