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find somewhere to mirror old microsoft (and other) binaries?
Microsoft is removing a lot of stuff, and archive.org is slow. I don't want to maintain or pay for servers.
I debated hosting stuff on github or sourceforge, but I think that's likely an abuse, at least in spirit if not the letter of their guidelines.
Opening an issue, as maybe someone has other ideas.
Non-exhaustive, but after running 'make test' with an empty cache, 4.1 GB are used:
austin@desktop ~/.cache/winetricks $ du -sh *
1.2M 7zip
2.3M ahk
57M art2k7min
33M art2kmin
28M baekmuk
132K binkw32
5.2M cabinet
44K cinepak
5.3M cmd
156K cnc_ddraw
580K comctl32
3.8M corefonts
1.4M d3dcompiler_46
36M d3dcompiler_47
7.4M d9vk
6.3M d9vk010
6.5M d9vk011
6.5M d9vk012
6.6M d9vk013
6.7M d9vk013f
7.0M d9vk020
7.2M d9vk021
7.2M d9vk022
7.4M d9vk030
7.4M d9vk040
252M directx9
24M dotnet11
11M dotnet11sp1
23M dotnet20
355M dotnet20sdk
24M dotnet20sp1
24M dotnet20sp2
51M dotnet30
198M dotnet35
232M dotnet35sp1
49M dotnet40
19M dotnet40_kb2468871
63M dotnet46
65M dotnet461
60M dotnet462
66M dotnet471
81M dotnet472
22M dotnetcore2
23M dotnetcore3
47M dotnetcoredesktop3
248K dotnet_verifier
6.4M droid
7.5M dx8vb
7.6M dxvk
2.5M dxvk054
2.5M dxvk060
2.5M dxvk061
2.5M dxvk062
2.5M dxvk063
2.5M dxvk064
2.5M dxvk065
4.4M dxvk070
4.4M dxvk071
4.4M dxvk072
4.5M dxvk080
4.6M dxvk081
4.6M dxvk090
4.6M dxvk091
4.6M dxvk092
4.6M dxvk093
4.6M dxvk094
4.7M dxvk095
4.7M dxvk096
4.7M dxvk100
4.7M dxvk101
4.7M dxvk102
4.7M dxvk103
4.9M dxvk111
5.0M dxvk120
5.0M dxvk121
5.0M dxvk122
5.0M dxvk123
5.0M dxvk130
5.1M dxvk131
5.1M dxvk132
5.3M dxvk133
5.4M dxvk134
5.4M dxvk140
5.4M dxvk141
5.4M dxvk142
5.5M dxvk143
5.5M dxvk144
5.5M dxvk145
5.5M dxvk146
7.4M dxvk150
7.4M dxvk151
7.4M dxvk152
7.5M dxvk153
7.5M dxvk154
7.5M dxvk155
7.4M dxvk160
7.4M dxvk161
7.4M dxvk170
7.6M dxvk171
7.6M dxvk172
7.6M dxvk173
1.7M eufonts
14M faudio1901
14M faudio1902
14M faudio1903
14M faudio1904
14M faudio1905
14M faudio1906
244K galliumnine
244K galliumnine06
244K galliumnine07
30M gfw
256K glidewrapper
124K glut
3.4M hhw
3.8M icodecs
77M ie6
15M ie7
17M ie8
9.3M ie8_kb2936068
12M ipamona
3.7M jet40
12M lavfilters
11M lavfilters702
1.3M liberation
1.9M lucida
5.2M mdac27
5.9M mdac28
63M mfc70
3.5M msdxmocx
1.8M msls31
1.1M msxml3
2.4M msxml4
1.8M msxml6
1.7M nuget
2.6M ogg
272K opensymbol
58M physx
61M PowerPointViewer
20M quicktime72
1.7M riched30
144K sdl
24M shockwave
118M sourcehansans
68M speechsdk
408K tahoma
29M takao
2.0M uff
12M unifont
220K vb2run
248K vb3run
864K vb4run
976K vb5run
2.1M vb6run
9.9M vb6sp6
868K vcrun2003
2.6M vcrun2005
4.3M vcrun2008
4.9M vcrun2010
6.3M vcrun2012
6.3M vcrun2013
14M vcrun2015
14M vcrun2017
14M vcrun2019
3.5M vcrun6
61M vcrun6sp6
3.8M vjrun20
2.2M vlgothic
1.7M vulkanrt
1.6M vulkanrt121412
2.4M wenquanyi
6.9M wenquanyizenhei
130M win2ksp4
538M win7sp1
1.2M windowscodecs
4.8M winxpsp2_support_tools
317M winxpsp3
1.2M wm9codecs
13M wmp10
25M wmp11
14M wmp9
1.0M wmv9vcm
1.1M wsh57
7.4M xna31
6.8M xna40
11M xvid
austin@desktop ~/.cache/winetricks $ du -sh .
4.1G .
That doesn't account for apps/games, but those are also much less important IMO.
I have 90GB in mail.ru and 30GB in pcloud.com. Unfortunately I realized the uploaded files can't be accessed directly. I get the direct link but it expires after certain amount of time. I'm very sorry :(
No worries, I wouldn't want to depend on unknowing third party hosts, anyway.
Ideally, some company/FOSS group with infrastructure (admins, servers, legal contacts, etc.) in place would mirror it. In the meantime, I think archive.org works. I prefer focusing on the code aspect ;).
@austin987 How about hosting them on GitHub? The folks over at PortingKit seem to have done this. They are mirrored here.
I'm not a lawyer, so I'm unsure about how great of a solution this is, but it at least seems Microsoft isn't taking them down (yet).
The GitHub Acceptable Use Policy implies it's not allowed: (https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-acceptable-use-policies)
"infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right."
Given that it's an open secret that there is leaked Microsoft source code on GitHub (which, for obvious reasons, I'm not linking here), I don't think Microsoft really monitors what's on GitHub..That said, since I'm located in the United States, I don't really want to spit in their eye ;).
I see there is a w_download_torrent implemented (but not used). I also like the IPFS idea, but the bar to host a torrent is likely a lot lower than running a IPFS node. (in the meantime - archive.org would surly appreciate a donation: https://archive.org/donate/ I threw some money their way after downloading like 1.5GB to (maybe :crossed_fingers: ) run an old game)
~https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB976932 contains links to identically files which is currently downloaded from archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20110608165548/http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFB5316-3062-494A-AB78-7FB0D4461357/windows6.1-KB976932-X86.exe == http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/software/svpk/2011/02/windows6.1-kb976932-x86_c3516bc5c9e69fee6d9ac4f981f5b95977a8a2fa.exe~
Sorry for the noise - fixed in the newest version: https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/commit/66f5122b39d50e0103b7a5d5852a199065e8c95d
most fonts (not CJK) + all pre-2016 DLL section (except DirectX) are 2.3Gb (with 7zip+Cabinet+SDL+Python2.7 included):
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ ls ~/.cache/winetricks
7zip dotnet35sp1 msxml3 vb6run
ahk dotnet40 msxml4 vb6sp6
art2k7min dotnetcore2 msxml6 vcrun2003
art2kmin dotnetcore3 ogg vcrun2005
baekmuk dotnetcoredesktop3 physx vcrun2008
binkw32 dx8vb PowerPointViewer vcrun2010
cabinet faudio python27 vcrun2012
cinepak faudio190607 quicktime76 vcrun2013
cmd ffdshow riched30 vcrun2015
comctl32 gdiplus_winxp sdl vcrun6
corefonts glidewrapper shockwave vcrun6sp6
dirac glut tahoma vlgothic
directx9 icodecs takao win2ksp4
dotnet11 lucida track_usage win7sp1
dotnet20 mdac27 vb2run winxpsp2_support_tools
dotnet20sp1 mfc70 vb3run winxpsp3
dotnet20sp2 msdxmocx vb4run wsh57
dotnet35 msls31 vb5run xvid
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ du -sh ~/.cache/winetricks
2.3G /home/pi/.cache/winetricks
Note: mdac27/art2kmin/art2k7min wreck default icon/mime associations
see #1752 for example of how to get (now broken) urls working
any url that is broken and points to a microsoft server url is available from web.archive.org which is how they have already fixed a lot of urls (the SHA checksums dont change)
It may be worth approching Archive.Org for a specific Wintricks url that they can then offload to a specific server/connection - they already do this for various other large and/or well used (retro) items.
you can't use GitHub because there are file size limits, which some of the binaries will excede (I think its 100Mb on the web upload, and 250Mb on the GIT urls)
EDIT: also see this comment
winetricks already falls back to archive.org. The point of this issue is to avoid the need for that fallback.
Maybe you can think about store those achieves on AWS or other cloud-file share platform?
There might still be a relatively fair number of http://download.microsoft.com/download/* links up.
But alas with none of the entry/welcome/front pages available, it's anybody guess to come up with the right "GUID" and file name, if we weren't already relying on them in the past.
(e.g. I tried for half a hour to figure out the original url for VS7.1sp1-KB9322981102-X86-Enu.exe, which could provide you with the last msvc(p|r)71 dlls, but with no luck).
Is there some way to increase the results limit for when you run queries on the wayback machine?
cloudflare r2 might work? it does seem to have 10gb free storage... (and zero egress fees, ever)
winetricks already falls back to archive.org. The point of this issue is to avoid the need for that fallback.
It seems like the version it now falls back to is broken or at least results in invalid exe files (someone maybe saved the 404 page?)
