Source Code for msieve ?

[mohamed]

I am studying integer factorization nowadays and I was wandering if msieve's source code is available ( I want to compile it because I want to make some changes in the code from what I've learnt and see what's the results are) , so anyone can guide me where to find it ?
I found this link before https://github.com/radii/msieve but this version is too old and besides that I didn't know how to compile it successfully.

Any help in finding the source code to compile it on windows platform ?

[debrouxl]

The msieve source code is on SourceForge.net, as usual
For me, the msieve SF.net project is the first search engine result

[fivemack]

To get the code out of source control, do

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/msieve/code/trunk msieve-code

(you might want to download TortoiseSVN if you don't have an SVN client installed)

[mohamed]

Thanks i've installed TortoiseSVN and downloaded the code,
Could you please do me another favor and tell me how to build these files because i got stuck again ,, should i install some libraries first ?
i am using VS2010 and didn't install GMP-ECM (i think those are optional) ,, but when i load the project from build.vc10 and (3. Open each of the four project configurations in turn and remove the 'gmp_ecm_config' item (right click and select 'Remove'). as said in the readme file there are errors for files not found.

could you please state exactly which libraries should i install first or what to do to build this project successfully ?

errors :

Error 2 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'pthread.h': No such file or directory c:\code\common\thread.c 15
Error 3 error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'gmp.h': No such file or directory c:\code\include\gmp_xface.h 19




Thank you very much

[jasonp]

You need to build either the GMP or MPIR libraries for big-integer support, and you also need to find a pthreads library for use in windows. Brian Gladman and Jeff Gilchrist can provide more information; the win32 binary on the sourceforge site has always used the Makefile to build from MinGW, where GMP is straightforward to build from source and pthreads are available natively.

[humanoid]

Hi, I'm trying to build msieve 1.51 with VS2010 as well but I'm getting this output error

1>\msieve-1.51\common\smallfact\gmp_ecm.c(35): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'ecm.h': No such file or directory

I already compiled a static mpir 2.6.0 lib and added the include directories to the project (for some reason relative paths didn't work, I had to use absolute paths).
As for the pthreads library, I used this one -> https://www.sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/

I can't really find any information about that missing header though, maybe someone here can tell me what I'm missing?

[jasonp]

You need to build GMP-ECM, which is the library that provides ecm.h; if you don't care about using ECM then you remove the definition of HAVE_GMP_ECM and the missing header will be ignored.

[humanoid]

Thanks, the website for the GMP-ECM library was a little hard to find for me (its this one, right? -> https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/ecm/ )

But after I compiled it and linked it to the msieve solution I was able to build everything :)

[jasonp]

That's the one. Happy factoring...