How To Install mingw32-rest-static on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-rest-static in Fedora 36. mingw32-rest-static is A library for access to RESTful web services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-rest-static on Fedora 36.

What is mingw32-rest-static

This library was designed to make it easier to access web services that claim to be “RESTful”. A RESTful service should have urls that represent remote objects, which methods can then be called on. The majority of services don’t actually adhere to this strict definition. Instead, their RESTful end point usually has an API that is just simpler to use compared to other types of APIs they may support (XML-RPC, for instance). It is this kind of API that this library is attempting to support.

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

Install mingw32-rest-static 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-rest-static using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-rest-static

Install mingw32-rest-static 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-rest-static using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw32-rest-static

How To Uninstall mingw32-rest-static on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw32-rest-static package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw32-rest-static

mingw32-rest-static Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/librest-0.7.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/librest-extras-0.7.a

References

Summary

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