How To Install mingw32-physfs on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-physfs on Fedora 36.
What is mingw32-physfs
MinGW compiled PhysicsFS, a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3’s file subsystem. The programmer defines a “write directory” on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run more safely. Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a “search path”. Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user’s home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc. Compiled for the Win32 target.
We can use yum or dnf to install mingw32-physfs on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-physfs.
Install mingw32-physfs 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-physfs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw32-physfs
Install mingw32-physfs 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-physfs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw32-physfs
How To Uninstall mingw32-physfs on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the mingw32-physfs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw32-physfs
mingw32-physfs Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libphysfs.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/physfs.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libphysfs.dll.a
/usr/share/doc/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/TODO.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-physfs on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
