How To Install mingw64-c-ares on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-c-ares on Fedora 36.
What is mingw64-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 Win64 target.
We can use yum or dnf to install mingw64-c-ares on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-c-ares.
Install mingw64-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 mingw64-c-ares using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw64-c-ares
Install mingw64-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 mingw64-c-ares using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw64-c-ares
How To Uninstall mingw64-c-ares on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the mingw64-c-ares package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw64-c-ares
mingw64-c-ares Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-c-ares
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-c-ares/LICENSE.md
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libcares-2.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_build.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_dns.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_rules.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/ares_version.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libcares.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/libcares.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-c-ares on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).