Re: Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X andOpenSSL

2006-08-01 Thread Simon Marlow
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 20:02 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: Suppose for a moment that GHC did dynamically link gmp.dll, or indeed HSbase.dll. Where exactly would these files go? I'd install them in the same directory as ghc.exe because this directory has to be on the %PATH%

Re: Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X andOpenSSL

2006-08-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:05 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Duncan Coutts wrote: So where do I put the Gtk+ .dlls? At the moment I seem to have no choice but to put them on the %PATH%. And thus the breakage ensues. Old versions of Gtk+ that people have on their systems can interfere. Lots of

Re: Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X andOpenSSL

2006-07-30 Thread Brian Hulley
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 11:53 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GHC Task Ticket # 601 suggests replacing GMP with OpenSSL's Bignum library, BN. I have two questions concerning this: From the ticket, this looks very scary: but its LGPL license

Re: Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X andOpenSSL

2006-07-30 Thread Brian Hulley
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 17:33 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: I think the main problem here is that I'm using Windows, so there is no way to dynamically link with the runtime libraries - the GHC implementations available for Windows only produce statically linked executables.

Re: Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X andOpenSSL

2006-07-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 20:02 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: Suppose for a moment that GHC did dynamically link gmp.dll, or indeed HSbase.dll. Where exactly would these files go? I'd install them in the same directory as ghc.exe because this directory has to be on the %PATH% for the command