Why is it compiling GMP so hard?

[Torbjorn Granlund]

  > We intentionally don't provide an installation icon to click,
  
    Windows is the OS of choice (or imposition) of around 90% of
    all desktops in the world, according to Wikipedia. What is the
    actual idea behind of not providing a Windows installer?

That's the wrong question.  We're working on GNU, a free
operating system.  I think you should be grateful for the pieces
you can borrow from us.

    Is it to "intentionally" prevent GMP from being more popular
    and used?

Popularity among users of non-free environments doesn't score
high in my world.

But we do support GMP on Windows, and thousands of people have
succeeded installing it.  Your attitude that standard Unix
commands are "typical Unix/Linux crap" surely will won't help you
to success here.

You need a set of standard tools, and configure helpfully tells
you which ones are missing.  Is this too hard to deal with?  Then
give up.

And by the way, Apfloat and GRX are broken too.  If you don't
have a compiler, an assembler, a linker, and a C library (that
old Unix crap!) they won't build either.  Horrible but true.

-- 
Torbjörn