Why do I see a "java.util​.zip.ZipEx​ception" error in my installer log file when I try to install the MinGW support package?

When installing the MinGW Support Package, I see the following error:

There was a problem installing the third-party software. To resolve this issue, contact Technical Support

I also see the following inside of my MATLAB installer log file:

java.util.zip.ZipException

How can I proceed with installing this Support Package?

 

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This error was due to incomplete third-party downloads through the MATLAB Support Package installer. This issue has since been resolved. The current solution is to download and install the MinGW Support Package through the MATLAB client using the following method:

How to install MinGW 4.9.2 for use in MATLAB?

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/313290

[monmatlab]

I have tried going through this steps, error remained. So accidentally I have pressed 'no' when windows asked for permission to install this tool and all of the sudden the installation proceeded without any problems. (Another window will occur for Registration, continue with 'yes')

[James Ryan]

Thanks! Happy accident. I'm not sure what's right or wrong here, but after doing this I can build MEX files and before I could not.

[Nicole]

pressing 'no' when windows asked for permission the 2nd time worked for me as well after following these steps. Thanks!

[David]

In attempting to use the Add-Ons procedure to install MinGW-w64 on 5 different machines, I encountered the download problem described here on 4 of the 5 machines. The good news is that the fix described by the Mathworks Support Team above was successful in terms of obtaining the correct files for placement into my downloads folder. The bad news is that I still had trouble installing, with the message "MinGW compiler not setup for use with MEX" during the "Configuring your installation" step. Answering "no" instead of "yes" when the various permissions are asked, as suggested above, did not seem to help.

However, I end with good news. What worked for me was to answer "yes" to all permission requests, as you would normally do, but then to recognize that what was causing the problem was that the environment variable MW_MINGW64_LOC was not getting set on my machines. This variable informs Matlab of the location of the installed MinGW program. This variable can be added to your system variables or, as what I did instead, was to add the line

setenv('MW_MINGW64_LOC','C:\ProgramData\MATLAB\SupportPackages\R2016b\MW_MinGW_4_9\');

to my startup.m file. Once I did this everything works.

[Hugo]

I had the same errors. First the download problem, then the "MinGW compiler not setup for use with MEX" error.

Downloading the 5 zip files and then running the install_supportsoftware.exe as administrator solved both errors for me.

[Konrad Groeneveld]

After adding the zip files to the archives, I'm still getting the same error as seen above. I have R2017a installed, if this makes a difference at all?

EDIT: I installed R2016b and tried the fix, and it seemed to work. R2017a needs a different (unknown) workaround.

[Stephen Evans]

We have been trying to download the files above from sourceforge but the links for the Core and GDB files are broken. Could you please host these files on a different website that is more reliable than sourceforge? Thank you.

[lin shan]

Bien, j'ai eu une erreur sur 3 party installation et il marche pour mon cas.

[Walter Roberson]

Ichan Lo comments to Konrad Groeneveld:

I was also stuck in second step for R2017a, however I try to use microsoft visual studio professional 2015. It works for compiler C++ https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/older-downloads/

[Hamidreza Mirtaheri]

It worked for me, Thanks a lot!

[Ziwei Nie]

I tried, and it succeeded! Thanks!

[Manish Kumar Nayak]

Worked smoothly for me too. For 2015b. Thanks.

[Santiago salinas]

Thacks a lot :)

[Salahuddin Unar]

2016a worked perfectly :)

Answer 2

[Jonathan Eagle]

This is the response from mathworks with instructions that worked for me. The other instructions here did not.

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Thank you for this followup information. I think there may be some confusion with the workaround instructions, as you should not need to rename any files or folders during this process. Once you have downloaded the 5 zip files, they need to be placed in the following folders found at C:\Users\<your_username>\Downloads\MathWorks\SupportPackages\R2016b\archives\3p:

• '"mingw64runtime-v3-git20141130-gcc49-tdm64-1.zip" placed in "tdm_mingw64runtime.instrset_win64_1473452065" folder
• "binutils-2.24.51-20140703-tdm64-1.zip" placed in "tdm_mingwbinutils.instrset_win64_1473452064" folder
• "gcc-4.9.2-tdm64-1-c++.zip" placed in "tdm_mingwcpp.instrset_win64_1473452064" folder
• "gdb-7.8.1-tdm64-3.zip" placed in "tdm_mingwdebugger.instrset_win64_1473451976" folder
• "gcc-4.9.2-tdm64-1-core.zip" placed in "tdm_mingwgcc.instrset_win64_1473452033" folder

Once the zip files are placed in each of these folders, you need to run the same MinGW support package installer again (from Add-Ons Explorer). The installation will now proceed and skip over the section where it needs to download third-party files.

[KYOHOON SIM]

This answer worked for me! I am using R2016b.

[Jingqian Wu]

This answer worked for me! I am using R2016b.

[Ariel Mardones]

Thx for posting the answer, it worked for R2016a.

[soyoung shin]

Thank you so much for your help. It worked for me! (R2016b)

Answer 3

[Travis Allen]

I'm currently getting this error when trying to install via the steps above...

"There was an error installing third-party software for Support Package mingw: C:\MATLAB\SupportPackages\R2016a\downloads\mingw_download does not contain archives for third-party software used by the support package.

To continue with support package installation: Use "Install from Internet" or Use "Download from Internet" to download the complete set of files, and retry installing from folder."

Any insights on how to fix this?

[Walter Roberson]

Travis Allen:

Did you download the 5 files from their sourceforge locations, and copy them into C:\MATLAB\SupportPackages\R2016a\downloads\mingw_download ?

[James Venning]

Same problem for me, even after replacing archives.

[Carl Ståhl]

Same for me on 2016a,with fresh downloads

[Kyle Perry]

Hello Everyone,

If you are still experiencing these issues, there could be several causes, the zip files were automatically extracted and they were not supposed to, or that the zip files are corrupt. Please contact us so we can help resolve the issue.

www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us

Answer 4

[Tanay Rastogi]

I have copied the 5 zip files in the folder, as mentioned by the MATLAB support team. After that, i run the the "mingw.mlpkginstall" MATLAB support package installer. I still see the error.

I have a question here, that when I run the package installer again, does it replace the files i copied in the folder. Because, it again downloads all the files (not sure what happens to files I copied). - Is that an issue? - How to directly install the files, without downloading them again? (Package Installer downloads them again)

[Reza Alviri]

I have exactly same problem. When I try to reinstall the support package again, it download and replace wrong files again.

[Kyle Perry]

Hello Tanay and Reza,

The files you downloaded manually should replace the existing files in the support package folder. If they are being re-downloaded after you replace them or the install is still not working, then please contact us so we can help resolve the issue.

www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us

Answer 5

[Koen V]

Hi All,

Problem: Unable to install MinGW through Add-on Explorer in Matlab R2017a (fresh install of Matlab and Windows7).

In my case, the description above was causing some misunderstanding because these steps deviated slightly from the actual required workflow.

FOR ME THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED after doing the following procedure:

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1. Try to install through 'Get Add-ons' in Matlab 2017a

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2. Resulted in a Download error: There was a problem downloading the third-party software. To resolve this issue, contact Technical Support

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3. Downloaded all files as described by Mathworks support team: https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/313286-why-do-i-see-a-java-util-zip-zipexception-error-in-my-installer-log-file-when-i-try-to-install-the

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4. It is stated that the installation process has already created some folders in: “C:\Users\_<username>_\Downloads\MathWorks\SupportPackages\R2016b\archives\3p\<name_of_archive>\”

However, these folders did not exist in my case. On the contrary, some zip-folders are created in a different location; "C:\Users\_<username>_\Downloads\MathWorks\SupportPackages\R2017a\archives\win64\3p" The folder naming of these folders does comply the description as stated before; "The name_of_archive would be one of the following and where xxxxxxxxxx is a string containing numbers.e.g.: tdm_MinGW64runtime.instrset_win64_xxxxxxxxxx"

So I decided to use the names of these zip-folder in the following steps

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5. I created a new 3p folder in "C:\Users\_<username>_\Downloads\MathWorks\SupportPackages\R2016b\archives\" and created 5 new folder inside 3p that have the same name as the zip-folder in "C:\Users\_<username>_\Downloads\MathWorks\SupportPackages\R2017a\archives\win64\3p"

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6. Then I placed the 5 archive folders from point 3 in their corresponding folder:

binutils-2.24.51-20140703-tdm64-1 --> copy to archives\3p\tdm_mingwbinutils.instrset_win64_1487954571

gcc-4.9.2-tdm64-1-c++ --> copy to archives\3p\tdm_mingwcpp.instrset_win64_1487954573

gcc-4.9.2-tdm64-1-core --> copy to archives\3p\tdm_mingwgcc.instrset_win64_1487954592

gdb-7.8.1-tdm64-3 --> copy to archives\3p\tdm_mingwdebugger.instrset_win64_1487954574

mingw64runtime-v3-git20141130-gcc49-tdm64-1 --> copy to archives\3p\tdm_mingw64runtime.instrset_win64_1487954589

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7. Retry to install through the Add-on Explorer

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I hope this helps you to solve the problem.

Answer 6

[Jed Frey]

The reason this is happening is because SourceForge redid their web structure. The Matlab downloading tool isn't respecting their 302 status code.

If you open the 1kB 'zip' files with Notepad++ (or any other text editor) you will see something like this:

    <html>
     <head>
      <title>302 Found</title>
     </head>
     <body>
      <h1>302 Found</h1>
      The resource was found at <a href="https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tdm-gcc/MinGW-w64%20runtime/GCC%204.9%20series/mingw64runtime-v3-git20141130-gcc49-tdm64-1.zip">https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tdm-gcc/MinGW-w64%20runtime/GCC%204.9%20series/mingw64runtime-v3-git20141130-gcc49-tdm64-1.zip</a>;
    you should be redirected automatically.

     </body>
    </html>

The fix should be as simple as either:

1. Teaching the downloading tool to respect HTTP return codes.
2. Fix the URLs in the packager.

For those downloading the files manually, make sure to delete the existing 1kB files. Windows will sometimes automatically just rename the files with (1) at the end instead of asking if you want to replace the existing files.

Answer 7

[Talfan Evans]

This worked for me.

Answer 8

[Terrence Jao]

This fixed it! Thanks!

Answer 9

[Dang Manh Truong]

Followed the steps outlined by the support team (windows 10, matlab r2016b), and it worked! Thanks a lot!

Answer 10

[Asaph Kabaasha]

It worked for me... Thanks a lot

Answer 11

[Hu Jingliang]

not working. still have the third party package error after replacing the zip files

[Walter Roberson]

You should contact Mathwork Support.

Answer 12

[Ivan Gromyko]

This does not work.

[Walter Roberson]

You should contact Mathwork Support.

Answer 13

[Matt Ward]

I ended up on this page after failing to create an Excel Add-In using Matlab Compiler 2016a. It turns out MinGW is not a supported compiler for Excel Add-Ins, contrary to the log file error. See compatible compilers here:

https://www.mathworks.com/content/dam/mathworks/mathworks-dot-com/support/sysreq/files/SystemRequirements-Release2016a_SupportedCompilers.pdf

For those trying to get the Excel Add-In working, the freely available Windows SDK 7.1 will work . I ran into some issues for me on Windows 10 using Microsoft's web-based installer file (the small file that will trigger a download for missing/desired components) however, I found success following the approach described here, where you download the .ISO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20115186/what-sdk-version-to-download/22987999#22987999

-Matt

Answer 14

[Fengzhou Wang]

is there anyone could show how to solve the problem from Mathwork Support. Do not ask everyone to ask for Mathwork Support.

[Fengzhou Wang]

The error might happen since the downloaded files are not complete. So extract all the downloaded files and make sure they are fully downloaded. If not, redownload them and the links are right(accessed on 17th Mar 2017 ) and the only problem should be the network. And then reinstall it, the solution should work for Matlab 2016a.

[mprice]

One issue I had was that I was extracting the sourceforge zip files into the specified folder (for 2016a). The zip files themselves must be present in this folder in order for the install to succeed.

Answer 15

[Nezha Farhi]

Thank you it worked perfectly

Answer 16

[med BT]

Thank you it works great

Answer 17

[Mengnan Zhao]

If you follow this instruction, the only reason that you still have the same problem before is that the downloaded zip files are not complete. To check this, you should open the zip files to see whether it can be unfolded. If yes, I guess you probably can succeed. This is how I fix the problem.

Answer 18

[Trinh Nguyen Cong]

I use R2015b and this work for me. First I copied all zip files to the folder "C:\MATLAB\SupportPackages\R2015b\downloads\mingw_download" and renamed the files as the instruction said but it still got error. Then I delete all zip files and copied them again without renaming and it worked. Hope this help!

Answer 19

[Seyed Hamid Mirmohammad Sadeghi]

Hi,

I tried to follow all the steps that mentioned here, but unfortunatly I have problem of installing the support package and it gives me an error. my matlab is matlab 2016b. what should I do? anybody tries this instruction for matlab 2016b?

Regards

hamid

Answer 20

[S]

Ok, I like it.

Answer 21

[shuo liu]

Why there is no the support package in my file?

Answer 22

[Kaveh]

It is ridiculous that after MONTHS the Matlab installer is still not fixed for this.

[Kyle Perry]

Hi Kaveh,

This issue was resolved in R2017a. Also for R2016b we have a patch available to install that resolves the issue as well, I have attached the link below:

https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1507667

If you are using R2015b or R2016a and still have the issue, please contact us so we can assist.

https://www.mathworks.com/support/contact_us.html

Answer 23

[jiaxin he]

无法重新加载 'D:\Program Files (x86)\matlab\bin\win64\libmwsimulink.dll'

Answer 24

[KERMADI Mostefa]

Worked with me : R2015b Win10. All thanks.

Answer 25

[Aysha Ashraf]

following all instructions but still facing this error in matlab 2015b