Re: Installing GMP on cygwin

[Kevin Ryde]

"Edward Marti" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> When I originally installed GMP on my linux distro (Red Hat 7.3), I had
> trouble having the programs compile, even after adding the '-lgmp' or
> '-lgmpxx' endings. Eventually, I discovered that if I installed the programs
> with --prefix=/usr instead of /usr/local, it would work with no problems.

I can never remember if /usr/local is searched by the compiler and/or
loader.  You can use compiler options (on your application) to look
anywhere desired.

If it's just a shared library which is not found you might need to
re-run ldconfig (though the libtool install is supposed to do that
already).

> BTW, is there a way to install GMP under mingw? I have found that mingw has
> much nicer executables because it doesn't require a dll like cygwin1.dll.
> However, all the GMP files, such as 'configure', are in linux, and my mingw
> won't seem to run them.

With the mingw tools it should be possible to run configure in the
normal way.

It might be possible to do a mingw build using the cygwin tools too,
something like the following (untested),

        ./configure CC="gcc -mno-cygwin" --host=i386-pc-mingw32

Replace i386 with your actual processor.