On Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:56:38 AM UTC+2, Cactus wrote: > > On 31/07/2013 18:24, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm currently working on some pieces of the build system. > > I must admit I don't really like the fact that MPIR ships a modified > yasm > > source tree. > > I think it would be cleaner, and easier to maintain, to ship a tarball > and > > untar it, or to the least a vanilla source tree, possibly patch it and > > then configure/build it if needed (i already added options to use a > > system-wide or user-provided yasm, when autotools are used at least). > > A little like what we do in Sage when we patch upstream software (like > > MPIR!). > > > > Do you really need to pass specific options to yasm? or a "generic" > > (./configure && make) build would do? > > That's important because the main modification I see is to let the > > autotools stuff recognize options given to MPIr and automatically passed > to > > yasm. > > > > My other question is about the VS builds because I never tried them and > > feel completely incompetent. > > With VS, is yasm always built? Is it possible to let VS untar something? > or > > does yasm directory have to be uncompressed? > > As Bill has said, I can confirm that YASM is not a part of MPIR on > Windows. The user has to download and install VSYASM from the YASM site > in order to build MPIR on Windows. > > Good news! That will simplify things.
> The source code routines in the x86w and x86_64w directories are either > original code or translations of the routines in x86 and x86_64. These > routines are designed to work using the full Windows ABI including the > Windows x64 exception handling specification, which YASM fully supports. > > I didn't think at first of the exception handling mechanism, thanks for the hint! Is there anything similar on x86? Best, JP -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
