How To Install mingw64-libffi on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-libffi
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is mingw64-libffi
Foreign function interface library for MinGW.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mingw64-libffi
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-libffi.
Install mingw64-libffi on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mingw64-libffi
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw64-libffi
Install mingw64-libffi on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install mingw64-libffi
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw64-libffi
How To Uninstall mingw64-libffi on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mingw64-libffi
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw64-libffi
mingw64-libffi Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libffi
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-libffi/README
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-libffi
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-libffi/LICENSE
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libffi-6.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libffi-3.1
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libffi-3.1/include
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libffi-3.1/include/ffi.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libffi-3.1/include/ffitarget.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libffi.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libffi.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-libffi
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.