GMP license problem, anyone?

NightStrike nightstrike at gmail.com
Fri May 30 17:32:49 CEST 2008


On 5/30/08, Brian Gladman <brg at gladman.plus.com> wrote:
> As far as I am aware there is no official port of GMP that compiles as a
> 32-bit native library on Windows (i.e. without using Cygwin, Mingw or
> any other 'Unix on Windows' toolset).

Mingw is not "Unix on Windows".  Cygwin is.

> Moreover, there is no official port of GMP that compiles as a 64-bit
> library on any 64-bit version of the Windows operating system.

Accept our patches to make it work, and it will.

> Unless I am mistaken, neither Cygwin or Mingw can yet offer robust and
> reliable 64-bit compilation on the 64-bit versions of Windows. Moreover,
> they seem unlikely to be able to do so for some little time yet.

Please don't conjecture about what we cannot do when it's already done:
http://mingw-w64.sf.net/


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