Windows Vista 64 builds of GMP-4..2.1, MPFR-2.2.1

Hi,
Does anyone provide Windows 64-bit versions of GMP and/or
MPFR libraries ?

I know Brian Gladman provides the makings, along with
instructions - but I 
couldn't get it to happen using the free version of VC 8.
Clicking on the 
'gmp.sln' file did result in opening up the VC 8 gui ...
quickly followed by 
a series of pop-ups telling me (repeatedly) things like 
"Solution folders 
are not supported in this version of Visual Studio",
and "The project 
consists entirely of configurations that require support for
platforms which 
are not installed on this machine. The project cannot be
loaded".

Normally, I use MinGW in an MSYS shell, but MinGW is still
strictly 32 
bits - and the MSYS shell is currently broken on Vista 64
anyway.

Cheers,
Rob 

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sisyphus" <sisyphus1optusnet.com.au>
To: "gmp" <gmp-discussswox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 8:37 AM
Subject: Windows Vista 64 builds of GMP-4..2.1, MPFR-2.2.1


> Hi,
> Does anyone provide Windows 64-bit versions of GMP
and/or MPFR libraries ?
>
> I know Brian Gladman provides the makings, along with
instructions - but I
> couldn't get it to happen using the free version of VC
8. Clicking on the
> 'gmp.sln' file did result in opening up the VC 8 gui
... quickly followed 
> by
> a series of pop-ups telling me (repeatedly) things like
 "Solution folders
> are not supported in this version of Visual
Studio", and "The project
> consists entirely of configurations that require
support for platforms 
> which
> are not installed on this machine. The project cannot
be loaded".

Hi Rob

The free version of VC8 does not provide the tools for
building 64-bit 
products and doesn't support the folder structure I use for
building GMP 
with the full Visual Studio 2005 product.

I don't know about the first of these decisions but the
latter is 
'braindead' on the part of Microsoft because it means that a
lot of VC++ 
build projects for open source products are now unavailable
to many 
potential users.  Worse still, the conversion of VC8 build
projects to those 
needed by VC8 Express is not easy and is very error prone,
which forces 
myself and others to either not support VC++ Express builds
or otherwise 
maintain two complex buid projects where one ought to be
sufficient.  It's 
not all bad news, however, since Microsoft have learnt
something from the 
Gnu/Linux/Unix community in that they have now made a good
command shell 
(Windows Powershell) available on XP and Vista. This can do
some quite 
powerful scripting and may make it possible to convert VC++
build projects 
to those needed by VC++ Express.  I will look at this
possibility when I 
have sufficient experience with PowerShell use.

In the meantime, if you email me privately I will see if I
can meet your 
specific needs on x64 (my 64-bit builds are for AMD64 right
now)

    best regards to all,

          Brian Gladman

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