Help building GMP for prime95 29.3

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by Prime95

MPIR compiles quite a bit cleaner. I've built a 32-bit DLL and run 'make check' successfully.

Two gotchas so far. The Makefile fails if the path contain blanks as in
--prefix=/home/'George Woltman'/mpir-3.0.0
Building the .lib file for the DLL requires renaming the libmpir-3.dll.def file before executing the MSVC library manager.

Try: --prefix="/home/George\ Woltman/mpir-3.0.0"

The shell will eat the quotes, and the escaped space should be passed to the actual commands being run.

[Prime95]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

Try: --prefix="/home/George\ Woltman/mpir-3.0.0"

The shell will eat the quotes, and the escaped space should be passed to the actual commands being run.

Thanks. My primitive solution was to move mpir up one directory. :)

[Prime95]

One more glitch on 64-bit windows. I get errors building MPIR when configured with --enable-fat. The good news is I can build the DLL from the GMP sources.

[Prime95]

I can build the 64-bit Windows DLL, but having trouble linking to it. Maybe tomorrow....

[Prime95]

Downloaded MSVC 2017. Looks like this is not the way to build MPIR. I don't see a way to build a "fat DLL" -- optimized for all x86_64 architectures.

[Prime95]

Success. I had left off /MACHINE:X64 when build the .lib file from the .def file.

In summary, it can be done but it is a messy process. Running the QA script 'make check' is also problematic.