In message <000801c596ac$c2a91790$3200000a@...534...>, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> writes
You are correct that it is a download problem. I was having the same issue recently. The trick is to use wget or some download manager such as freshdownload or something to ensure that you get a complete archive.
Freshdownload is much better than wget and I now have a copy of gtk26 which unpacks.
Completing the rest of the downloads but using the inkscape-0.42.tar.gz as a source, I had to find a mingenv.bat and a config.h.mingw as they were not in the source. I copied both from the CVS file repository, editing the mingenv.bat as required (I checked with 'SET' and 'PATH' that it was OK). I then copied config.h.mingw to config.h as mentioned by Adib Taraben in the mail archives as well as running mkfiles.pl and mkdep.pl (there isn't a makedef.pl in the distro)
However, on getting to the 'make -f Makefile.mingw' step, it stops immediately with the following error message:
'No rule to make target config.h.mingw, needed by config.h'
I have checked that the rule lines start with a TAB not spaces as advised in Mathew and Stones book, but after that I'm lost.
Sorry to be a nuisance, but can anyone help. TIA Douglas Neale