How To Install mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8. mingw32-winpthreads is MinGW pthread library for the win32 target

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `mingw32-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 mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-winpthreads.

Install mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mingw32-winpthreads using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-winpthreads

Install mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mingw32-winpthreads using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw32-winpthreads

How To Uninstall mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove mingw32-winpthreads

mingw32-winpthreads Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_compat.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_signal.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_time.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/pthread_unistd.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/sched.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/semaphore.h
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libpthread.dll.a
/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libwinpthread.dll.a
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-winpthreads
/usr/share/licenses/mingw32-winpthreads/COPYING

References

mingw32-winpthreads website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-winpthreads on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.