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 > > > > > > -- > > > 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 athttp://groups.google.com/group/mpir- devel?hl=en.- > > > Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > 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 -- 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.
