On Tuesday 28 July 2009 00:50:11 Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jason Moxham<ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi ,
> >
> > I wonder how many try this same but give up because it doesn't just work.
>
> It does work. yasm is optional (at least for 1.2.0). I used it to
> build GMP support in php on windows
> (http://pecl2.php.net/downloads/php-windows-builds/php-libs/VC9/x86/).
> It will complain when you load the sln but you can still build mpir.
>

Yes , true , but you get a generic C build , which is perfectly correct but 
slower(by a factor of ~4x) 

> > I've
> > done the same , needed something , found a few packages on the net ,
> > first one that installs and appears to work get used , the rest get
> > dumped , even though they could be way better . and if the package does
> > what I want then I wont change it for another . Even if the package isn't
> > perfect , then I'm more likely to continue with my current package than
> > have to start from scratch with a new one.
> >
> > We bundle yasm with the linux build , and the linux bod's don't need to
> > know or care about it, How about the same for the windows bod's ? The
> > only problem I can see is that can VC use yasm.exe without installing it
> > into a "system" directory?
>
> It can be installed somewhere in your path as well as far as I remember.
>
> By the way, is there any plan to support the VC assembler too?
>

I didn't think there was one , or perhaps it's crap , thats why we use yasm?

> Cheers,



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