building DLL with MinGW fails

[Sisyphus]

Radu Ursu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using MinGW to build the DLL version of GMP that I want to use with 
> Visual C++ 7.1.

I am currently using a MinGW-built GMP with VC 7 (.NET) compiler - but I 
built GMP in the MSYS shell (not Cygwin). I doubt that a cygwin-built 
GMP would be compatible with the Microsoft compilers (though I don't 
know that to be a fact) - use the MSYS shell instead. (Google for MSYS.)

Alternatively you might be interested in:
http://fp.gladman.plus.com/computing/gmp4win.htm

Cheers,
Rob

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