Problems about installing GMP on Win XP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paglia C." <paglia.ctiscali.it>
To: <gmp-discussswox.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 5:06 AM
Subject: Problems about installing GMP on Win XP


Hi!
I'm trying to install GMP on Windows XP but several problems
are occourring.
I read this message:
http://www.swox.com/list-archives/gmp-disc
uss/2003-October/000794.html so I
have installed MinGW and MSYS correctly in a directory
called C:bin, but
when i run the commands detailed in the microsoft windows
section as the
section reports , msys shell shows the following message:
"No such file or
directory".
.
.


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I assume you've correctly unpacked the GMP source and (in
the MSYS shell)
cd'd to the top level GMP source folder, and got "No
such file or directory"
when you've run './configure'.

In my case (building a GMP dll), I've unpacked the gmp
source tarball to
D:GMPdynamic which means the top-level source folder is
D:GMPdynamicgmp-4.1.4. Here's a copy'n'paste of the MSYS
shell:

RobDESKTOP ~
$ cd /d/GMP/dynamic/gmp-4.1.4

RobDESKTOP /d/GMP/dynamic/gmp-4.1.4
$ ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared
configure: loading site script /etc/config.site
checking build system type... pentium3-pc-mingw32
checking host system type...
etc.

If you've done all of that correctly then it sounds like you
haven't got the
MinGW and MSYS installation right. (If that part is right,
then building is
trivial.) MinGW and MSYS need to be kept separate.
C:binmsys and
C:binmingw should be ok - though normally you'd have MSYS
in C:msys and
MinGW in C:mingw (or something like that). However, if the
MSYS tree is
located within the MinGW tree (or vice-versa) or C:bin
contains the files
from *both* mingwbin and msysbin, then you're asking for
trouble.

(Install MinGW before you install MSYS. Then, at the end of
the MSYS
installation procedure, you should be prompted to provide
the location of
MinGW - which you need to do.)

Cheers,
Rob

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