Information about the package, mingw32-winpthreads, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mingw32-winpthreads package is designed for, MinGW pthread library for the win32 target.
Package Name:
mingw32-winpthreads
Summary:
MinGW pthread library for the win32 target
Description:
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: Solaris (UI) 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.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.3.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
42 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT and BSD
Control the mingw32-winpthreads package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mingw32-winpthreads
This command will install mingw32-winpthreads on the server.
yum remove mingw32-winpthreads
This command will un-install mingw32-winpthreads on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mingw32-winpthreads, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mingw32-winpthreads
This command will un-install mingw32-winpthreads on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mingw32-winpthreads when using the -y flag.
yum update mingw32-winpthreads
This command will update mingw32-winpthreads to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mingw32-winpthreads, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mingw32-winpthreads
This command will update mingw32-winpthreads to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mingw32-winpthreads when using the -y flag.
yum info mingw32-winpthreads
This command will show you core information about the mingw32-winpthreads package.
yum deplist mingw32-winpthreads
This command will show you the dependencies for mingw32-winpthreads. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update mingw32-winpthreads
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mingw32-winpthreads. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.