On 05/17/2010 12:01 PM, Cactus wrote: > > > On May 17, 11:13 am, Antony Vennard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Brian, > > [snip] > >> As I understand it, mingw (gcc on windows) has the same problem - it >> doesn't support x86-64 compilation. I'm not 100% on that - last I tried >> msys on win64 was about two years ago and back then msys itself just seg >> faulted when you tried to run it so you had to set up all the paths by >> hand... > > This has now changed since mingw64 now exists. I use it via > CodeBlocks and find the x64 code qulaity is very good. > > It compiles GMP and MPIR for Windows x64 in generic C mode and gives a > reasonable performance given the absense of any assembler support. > > It has taken a long time for mingw64 to arrive because of a 'chicken > and egg' problem in that the compiler needs GMP and MPFR for > generating compile time constants but the standard version of GMP was > not available on Windows x64 for a long time.
Aaah I see. I did wonder. Which means we can also target mingw64. Great stuff. I must take a look at it - windows vm starting up now. Antony > > Brian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
