Windows Visual C++ Express x64 static binaries

NightStrike nightstrike at gmail.com
Sun May 18 17:12:39 CEST 2008


On 5/18/08, Jan Wielemaker <wielemak at science.uva.nl> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 May 2008 11:46:57 Andreas Fabri wrote:
> > Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> >  > [snip]
> > >
> > > A GMP port to 64-bit MS Windoze should target command oriented
> > > interfaces such as mingw or cygwin, and work within the configure/make
> > > system already in place.  Separate solutions ("project" files) are not
> > > acceptable since they target non-free compilers and require separate
> > > maintenance.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would a build system as cmake be an option for the GMP project?
>
> Just out of curiosity as developer of SWI-Prolog, which uses
> configure/make on all systems except for Windows for which I maintain a
> set of hand written NMAKE files calling M$ cl.exe and a hand written
> substitutes for config.h. Surely not an ideal situation, but there are
> not many alternatives if you want to support Windows. Cygwin is too slow
> and crippled for anything but hinting people they really do not want
> Unix. I started considering mingw/msys, but 64-bit requirement came
> first and thus I now need to wait for a proper 64-bit mingw.

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