On Saturday 17 July 2010 14:45:30 Cactus wrote:
> On Jul 17, 2:28 pm, Bill Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does this use Linux calling conventions or C calling conventions? 
The
> > problem is, on Windows 64 the assembly code usually needs to be
> > specially written to support the correct calling conventions.
> > 
> > This has been done for the MSVC build, but I don't know how 
MinGW-64
> > handles this, and we certainly didn't do anything to configure to fix
> > this yet. So at present, you get much, much better performance 
from
> > the MSVC build, I think.
> > 
> > I also personally had problems getting MinGW-64 to work at all on 
my
> > Windows 7 machine. These issues may have been fixed in the past 
few
> > months though, as it has been a while since I tried.
> > 
> > Bill.
> > 
> > On 17 July 2010 14:23, degski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Jason,
> > > 
> > >> If you want 64bit (which will be MUCH faster) then use MSVC if 
you can
> > >> , we do support the free download version
> > > 
> > > I'm not claiming MPIR compiles correctly (haven't tried compiling
> > > MPIR, but was able to compile various other libs correctly), but
> > > MinGW-w64 - for 64 bit Windows now exists.
> > >
> > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > degski
> > > 
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> I have used mingw64 to compile the generic C versions of both GMP 
and
> MPIR on Windows x64 and it works fine.   Mingw64 uses the correct
> Windows calling conventions and it can hence work with YASM 
assembler
> code in Windows format.
> 
> In prinnciple it could hence use our Windows assembler code but it
> would have to be set up to do this and this would require someone to
> do it.

Should be easy to do 

> 
>      Brian

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