Irrlicht Engine 1.8 Archive....corrupt?

[Phoenix Wright]

I downloaded the Irrlicht Engine version 1.8 finally, but found that the archive kept giving me an message about it being corrupt. I have tried downloading it many times and seem to get the same result every single time. I have even tried to repair it using WinRar and got the same result. Corrupt.

Am I the only one with the problem? Or have others had this issue as well? Has anyone fixed it? Or is this happening on purpose (I don't know why it would be)?

Thanks

[CuteAlien]

Definitely not on purpose - I just downloaded new to check and can't reproduce the problem. But I don't think I have WinRar installed (I use unzip on Linux and 7-zip on Windows), so maybe that is having trouble for some reason? Thought somewhat surprising as zip format is usually supported well by all tools.

[Phoenix Wright]

So I went a head and attempted to download the archive once more, but on a completely different network entirely. Though in the end I got the same exact result. Here is a screenshot of the error I am getting when opening the 1.8 archive.



Also, here is the error message straight from WinRaR.

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!   C:\Users\Kuja\Desktop\irrlicht-1.8.zip: The archive is corrupt
!   C:\Users\Kuja\Desktop\irrlicht-1.8.zip: Checksum error in irrlicht-1.8\source\Irrlicht\CSphereSceneNode.cpp. The file is corrupt
!   C:\Users\Kuja\Desktop\irrlicht-1.8.zip: The archive is corrupt
 

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks

[CuteAlien]

Seems somehow WinRar doesn't like it. Haven't heard about this before, so not really an idea. If you have an svn client then just download the svn version, it's more up-to-date anyway. Otherwise try using another tool. I don't really believe it gets corrupted on each download and I checked the version online yesterday and it still works.

[Phoenix Wright]

Seems somehow WinRar doesn't like it. Haven't heard about this before, so not really an idea. If you have an svn client then just download the svn version, it's more up-to-date anyway. Otherwise try using another tool. I don't really believe it gets corrupted on each download and I checked the version online yesterday and it still works.

Ok, I have come to the conclusion that the provided source file for the Irrlicht engine is what is causing the problem. Not my computer, my internet connection of the program I use to extract the files. Here is my proof after I attempted to use 7-Zip for extracting.



As you can see, even 7-Zip find errors within the Zip archive. Also, 7-Zip does not even complete the extraction process. It just...sits there and does nothing, not even the loading bar shows any progress with extraction.

So...this all means I cannot use the Irrlicht engine at the current time. Sure I could try and download the SVN, but I don't know where to find the link to the SVN for the Irrlicht source directory.

[CuteAlien]

The problem is just ... I downloaded it two more times right now (on another system) and decompressed it and it works again. And so do regularly new people all the time - we usually have a few new users trying it out every week and this is the first time someone has this problem. I really have no explanation, it just makes no sense. But the zip file which is online usually just works - I don't know why all your systems seems to be cursed. You are using the download link from our homepage, right?

For svn you have 2 choices. The last stable version + a bunch of bugfixes is here:

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svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/irrlicht/code/branches/releases/1.8 your_local_irrlicht_folder
 

Or the developer version (which will become 1.9 some day):

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svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/irrlicht/code/trunk irrlicht-code your_local_irrlicht_folder
 

Note that 1.8 is a little safer - aka - it should generally always work. While trunk is having new features once in a while which means there can be new bugs occasionally (but is generally also stable - I work with that in my day job).

Note that I'm also working on getting a new 1.8.1 release out for end of month/early next month, but as I'm just going to use zip again I don't really know if that will help you.

[hendu]

Post your md5sums people.

If they match, OP has a virus/virus scanner interfering. If no match, OP has a network proxy interfering.

[CuteAlien]

Good idea: md5 here: d06329d8f466658caaf4838ba349e393
We should probably add that to the download page.

(Tool I used for checking is md5sum for mingw)