How To Install mingw64-winpthreads on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-winpthreads on CentOS 8.
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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw64-winpthreads.
Install mingw64-winpthreads on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mingw64-winpthreads using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mingw64-winpthreads
Install mingw64-winpthreads on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mingw64-winpthreads using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mingw64-winpthreads
How To Uninstall mingw64-winpthreads on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mingw64-winpthreads package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mingw64-winpthreads
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw64-winpthreads on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.