Microsoft Visual Studio support

[Michael Abshoff]

Kai Tietz wrote:
> NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail.com> wrote on 01.04.2008 15:00:15:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jarl Bong-Rundtörn <jarl at swox.com>
> wrote:
>> > Today we can announce an agreement between Swox and Microsoft that
> will
>> >  make future GMP releases much more easily accessible for users of
>> >  Microsoft(tm) Windows(R) Visual Studio(tm).
>> >
>> >  Microsoft will sponsor a transition of a configure+Makefile based
>> >  build system to one based on Visual Studio(tm) project files.  As
> part
>> >  of this deal, Makefiles usable for a release will be made available
>> >  after a 6 month delay.
>> >
>> >  "This agreement will allow GMP to broaden its user base to people
> that
>> >  have not until now been able experience a quality bignum library",
>> >  says Jarl Bong-Rundtörn, director at the division of bignum
> arithmetic
>> >  at Swox AB.
>>
>> How will this affect mingw users?
>
> AFAICS not very much. VS is not gcc. It would be nice if a working
> configuration for x86_64-pc-mingw would be part of gmp and mpfr. So we
> could avoid applying the patch of Weasley.

While that is certainly true I would recommend two things before thinking
about the consequences for MinGW users:

 a) check your calender
 b) What is an anagram for "Jarl Bong-Rundtörn"?

>   Kai

Cheers,

Michael

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