How To Install mingw64-rest on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-rest in Fedora 36. mingw64-rest is A library for access to RESTful web services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-rest on Fedora 36.

What is mingw64-rest

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 mingw64-rest on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-rest.

Install mingw64-rest 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-rest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw64-rest

Install mingw64-rest 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-rest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw64-rest

How To Uninstall mingw64-rest on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw64-rest package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw64-rest

mingw64-rest Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/mingw64-rest
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-rest/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mingw64-rest/README
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-rest
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-rest/COPYING
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/librest-0.7-0.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/librest-extras-0.7-0.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest-extras
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest-extras/flickr-proxy-call.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest-extras/flickr-proxy.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest-extras/lastfm-proxy-call.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest-extras/lastfm-proxy.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest-extras/youtube-proxy.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/oauth-proxy-call.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/oauth-proxy.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/oauth2-proxy-call.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/oauth2-proxy.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-enum-types.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-param.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-params.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-proxy-auth.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-proxy-call.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-proxy.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-xml-node.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/rest-0.7/rest/rest-xml-parser.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/librest-0.7.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/librest-extras-0.7.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/rest-0.7.pc
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig/rest-extras-0.7.pc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-rest on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).