How To Install mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36.

What is mingw32-c-ares

c-ares is a C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously. c-ares is a fork of the library named ‘ares’, written by Greg Hudson at MIT. This package is MinGW compiled c-ares library for the Win32 target.

We can use yum or dnf to install mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-c-ares.

Install mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mingw32-c-ares using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-c-ares

Install mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mingw32-c-ares using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw32-c-ares

How To Uninstall mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw32-c-ares package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw32-c-ares

mingw32-c-ares Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libcares-2.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_build.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_dns.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_rules.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_version.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libcares.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libcares.pc
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-c-ares
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-c-ares/LICENSE.md

References

• mingw32-c-ares website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-c-ares on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).