Dear ALL, I have been using Dr. Gladman's msvc build-projects for a long time, and followed his move with MPIR as from the start... What I cannot follow anymore and this does not only apply to this thread, but others in the past as well, is that the reason for Brian's work was to make it possible to build GMP under MSVC. and the way I understood it that was exactly the idea with MPIR, provide MSVC builds of GMP.
What seems to be on the rise is the idea that MinGW is some sort of standin for native windows development, it isn't in my opinion. It's a poor man's solution. For instance MinGW64, as far as I know, does hardly any optimisation at all (Intel Ci7 f.e. not implemented), which for MPIR is no problem (given the assembler), but surrounding code will suffer. Also the upcoming VC11 C++11 support will be an important reason not to go for something like MinGW64. I read that it is thought to be ironic that GMP does support MinGW(32?), but why is that an issue? MPIR is a dropin replacement for GMP, there is no need for the opposite AFAICS. I would think GMP does perfectly fine (if and when a build on that platform/processor combination is provided). Hopefully I did not offend anyone, any offending remarks must be fully attributed to my ignorance. 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.
