<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>Hi All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>I am new to this user list and was hoping to get some help on GMP installation.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>I was trying to install Math::GMP from CPAN and it requires me to install GMP library which brought me to this user list "grinning".</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>Does anyone knows if there is a GMP binary package?  I have downloaded GMP and tried to compile it using nmake but it doesnt work.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>Basically, I usually do the following to install a Perl module.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>1) Makefile.PL</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>2) nmake</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>3) nmake test</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>4) nmake install</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>However, there isn't Makefile.PL for GMP.  Does anyone knows if GMP works in a Windows XP OS environment.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>I read the INSTALL document and it doesn't have specific installation steps for Windows.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>Any help will be greatly appreciated.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>Thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005>Peter</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=780315307-31052005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>