Hi,
 
I just wanted to introduce myself. I am a Common Lisp developer and 
maintain an implementation called ECL (http://ecls.sf.net) that is based on 
C. This implementation used GMP for the bignums and rationals, with great 
success in terms of performance. However, in the recent past ECL has been 
used in a project called Sage, which introduced me to MPIR.
 
In terms of license and support for Windows this fork of the library seems 
much stronger. I have also noticed that it also supports cygwin64 and other 
variants which I need. This is leading me to consider a switch, 
distributing a trimmed down versiĆ³n of MPIR (no tests, probably no docs) 
replacing the copy of GMP.
 
However, while building MPIR with my copy of Visual Studio Express 2012 I 
noticed that it would not work because it does not support it yet and 
because MPIR assumes yasm is present. Since ECL tries to build 
out-of-the-box with just a minimal set of tools, I have made a github fork 
that changes configure.bat and make.bat to allow building in just C format. 
This is sub-optimal, but users should be able to build better copies of 
MPIR if they wish.
 
The appropriate request for consideration of this patch has also been sent 
to your github account.
 
Best
 
Juanjo

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