mingw-genlib command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mingw-genlib command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mingw-genlib: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mingw-genlib: command not found

Solutions to mingw-genlib: command not found

How To Fix mingw-genlib: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mingw-genlib is provided by mingw-w64-tools package.

mingw-w64-tools is:

MinGW-w64 provides a development and runtime environment for 32- and 64-bit (x86 and x64) Windows applications using the Windows API and the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc).

This package contains:

  • gendef, which extracts DLL exports from Windows executables;
  • genidl, which extracts IDL information from Windows executables;
  • genpeimg, which manipulates PE flags in Windows executables;
  • widl, which generates build files from IDL descriptions;
  • pkg-config symlinks to allow .pc-based libraries to be used.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mingw-w64-tools

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mingw-w64-tools.

sudo apt -y install mingw-w64-tools

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mingw-w64-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mingw-genlib command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.