Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Installing in Offline Environment

[Gerardo Ballabio]

I too usually build MXE packages offline. In fact I go even further
than you: I run "make -n download-*" to get the list of required
packages and then I download them by hand (this lets me avoid wasting
bandwidth by downloading a package if I already have it from a
previous build -- I probably don't need this anymore but until quite
recently I did not have a fast internet connection). This has usually
worked except for a period, maybe one or two years ago, when "make
gcc" failed because of several missing dependencies. However, after
downloading them and putting them in the pkg directory (that took
repeating the procedure several times, because on each attempt I would
get the name of ONE missing dependency), in the end I have always
succeeded. But if I remember correctly, the last time I tried there
were no missing dependencies and the build worked on the first try. So
I assumed that the issue had been fixed.

If you have the prerequisite packages in your pkg directory but MXE
still tries to download them, I'd suggest to look at the build logs.
That may help figure what's going on.

Gerardo


Il giorno ven 13 set 2019 alle ore 18:05 Seth Raymond
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been struggling with this for a few days, so I figured I should reach 
> out to see what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to install a Qt 5 cross-compiler 
> on an offline environment. I cloned the repo on a network-connected machine 
> and ran
>
> $ make download-qt5
>
> to get the dependencies all downloaded. However, when I brought it to my 
> offline machine (which lives in /opt/mxe) and ran
>
> $ make qt5
>
> it was trying to download prerequisite packages (bzip2, lcms, gcc, etc). I 
> tried downloading all of the packages from pkg.mxe.cc/pkg and copied them 
> onto my non-network connected computer (under /opt/mxe/pkg) and ran
>
> $ make qt5
>
> again, only to get the same issue - it was trying to download the 
> prerequisite packages. I am running as root, so it's not a permissions issue.
>
> Can anyone help me out, or tell me what it is I'm doing wrong? TIA!
>
> -Seth