What's a VC assembler? Bill.
2009/7/28 Jason Moxham <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com>: > > 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, > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---