On 12/05/2016 17:03, 'Bill Hart' via mpir-devel wrote: > For anyone that would like to help with porting to Windows, here are the > notes so far: > > * The asm jit we use mentions MSVC support on its website, though it > only explicitly mentions MSVC 2003. I don't see any VS solution files, > so I don't know how the build is managed (they use CMake).
Hi Bill, If it is this one, it seems to have support via Cmake for VS 2015. https://github.com/kobalicek/asmjit > * Bear in mind that supporting anything other than the assembly formats > currently supported is a massive task. Alex has spent months adapting it > to work with our assembly code, though it does read quite a bit of our > yasm code and a lot of gas format assembly. It currently outputs gas > format. It can output Intel syntax (we are not sure what variety), but > that part contains some bugs (incorrect output). > > * The superoptimiser itself is written in C++11, and Alex says he > doesn't use many longs in his code. > > * Currently there is code that is Linux specific for fixing the CPU > affinity. That would need porting. I do this regularly so it should not be an issue. > * Until today we were having a lot of problems on Intel CPUs on any OS. > AMD is more stable though still not perfect. > > * We have not tested again on a fully loaded system. We are trying that > now, after the most recent changes. We previously had problems on loaded > systems. > > * As mentioned, we do not believe timings will be consistent enough on > Windows to be able to superoptimise, but people are welcome to try and > figure out how to make it work there. At the least it is going to > require someone with a lot of Windows experience to solve that, if it is > actually possible. Well, I am finding things better than they used to be so it may be worth trying it. > * The total amount of code asm jit + optimiser is about 32,000 lines of > code, but currently the code is in a state of flux, day-to-day > * Alex does not have experience developing on Windows and does not have > access to a Windows machine and he is on contract to the OpenDreamKit > project, so he is not available to assist in the development of a > Windows port, other than to answer occasional questions by email. > > * Alex is currently happy to give people access to the repository on > request (if you have a GitHub account), but please understand that the > project is not in a stable state just yet. I'll reflect on whether I have time to do this and get back to you guys. But I'm inclined to give it a shot. Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
