build gmp in windows xp

[Michael Beight]

Hey Greicy,

> [...] my MINGW it does not come with Dev-C++ [...]

No problem:  You don't need Dev-C++ for building GMP;  that can be taken
care of entirely by MSYS.

Dev-C++ is just a GUI for MinGW, actually.

> [The] guide talk in to make a copy of mingw2-make.exe and

> rename this copy make.exe, but in my MinGW I didn't find
> this file I have a folder "mingw32" but this file is not there
> also. Can be this a possible problem? or I can go to steps
> compilation and installation?

If you've used MSYS before and haven't had a problem with this, then it
shouldn't be a problem now.

However, I had limited success attempting to build GMP with other versions
of MSYS besides 1.0.10;  so if you do run into any inexplicable errors, you
might try that.

Good luck, and be sure to check out the guides buried in the DevPaks, too;
they cover a number of potential problems that the first guide doesn't.  The
direct links are here, since the devpaks.org site is apparently down right
now:

http://sites.google.com/site/ssitey/gmp-4.3.1-1ext.DevPak   ("Generic C"
build)
http://sites.google.com/site/ssitey/gmp-4.3.1-2ext.DevPak   ("Fat Binary"
build, for x86)

  - Michael



On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:01, <Greicy.Costa-Marques at imag.fr> wrote:

>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I have MSYS and MINGW installed, but my MINGW it does not come with Dev-C++
> and in the step 7 of the guide talk in to make a copy of mingw2-make.exe and
> rename this copy make.exe, but in my MinGW I didn't find this file I have a
> folder "mingw32" but this file is not there also. Can be this a possible
> problem? or I can go to steps compilation and installation?
>
> Thanks for advance,
>
> greicy
>
>
>
>
> Citando "Michael Beight" <piman314 at gmail.com>:
>
>  I have built GMP on several different Windows now, and as I was also new
>> to
>> MSYS, I found this guide extremely helpful:
>>
>> http://suchideas.com/journal/2007/07/installing-gmp-on-windows/
>>
>>
>> There are also some pre-built packages for Dev-C++ here, which also
>> contain
>> a good guide:
>>
>> http://devpaks.org/details.php?devpak=265
>> http://devpaks.org/details.php?devpak=266
>> (If these links no longer work, just go to devpaks.org and search the
>> Mathematics category).
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