How To Install mingw64-winpthreads on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-winpthreads in Fedora 36. mingw64-winpthreads is MinGW pthread library for the win64 target

Introduction

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

What is `mingw64-winpthreads`

The POSIX 1003.1-2001 standard defines an application programming interface (API) for writing multithreaded applications. This interface is known more commonly as pthreads. A good number of modern operating systems include a threading library of some kind threads, Win32 threads, DCE threads, DECthreads, or any of the draft revisions of the pthreads standard. The trend is that most of these systems are slowly adopting the pthreads standard API, with application developers following suit to reduce porting woes. Win32 does not, and is unlikely to ever, support pthreads natively. This project seeks to provide a freely available and high-quality solution to this problem.

We can use yum or dnf to install mingw64-winpthreads on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-winpthreads.

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

sudo dnf -y install mingw64-winpthreads

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

sudo yum -y install mingw64-winpthreads

How To Uninstall mingw64-winpthreads on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove mingw64-winpthreads

mingw64-winpthreads Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-winpthreads
/usr/share/licenses/mingw64-winpthreads/COPYING
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_compat.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_signal.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_time.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_unistd.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/sched.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/semaphore.h
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libpthread.dll.a
/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libwinpthread.dll.a

References

mingw64-winpthreads website

Summary

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