Just to let you know that Visual Studio 2008 Proffesional has MASM (ml.exe) 
and 64-bit MASM (ml64.exe) installed.  I'm not suggesting thier use, just 
letting you know they are installed with Visual Studio 2008 Proffesional.

Regards
Chris Saunders

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Moxham" <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com>
To: <mpir-devel@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 8:00 PM
Subject: [mpir-devel] Re: Problem with mpir.sln in build.vc9 directory


>
> 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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