How To Install mingw32-pdcurses on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-pdcurses on Fedora 36.
What is mingw32-pdcurses
PDCurses is a public domain curses library for DOS, OS/2, Win32, X11 and SDL, implementing most of the functions available in X/Open and System V R4 curses. It supports many compilers for these platforms. The X11 port lets you recompile existing text-mode curses programs to produce native X11 applications. Note that ncurses is not available for MinGW / Windows. Applications which need curses functionality can use this package, provided they don’t use any of the extensions specific to ncurses.
We can use yum or dnf to install mingw32-pdcurses on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-pdcurses.
Install mingw32-pdcurses 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-pdcurses using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw32-pdcurses
Install mingw32-pdcurses 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-pdcurses using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw32-pdcurses
How To Uninstall mingw32-pdcurses on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the mingw32-pdcurses package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw32-pdcurses
mingw32-pdcurses Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/pdcurses.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/curses.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/panel.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libpdcurses.dll.a
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-pdcurses on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
