Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Python recompile Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:10:57 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <871pv861ht.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <20250308192940.00001351@yahoo.com> <871pv3goh0.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:11:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2ef4e7aaa99a36084a927a6ac123e306"; logging-data="2365992"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+jllNz0yCI7gIOo14IvMEaak1DjSdXmhk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:S1Jp/MElOLiwtROcEMYDNxGYNkM= In-Reply-To: <871pv3goh0.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2504 On 3/11/2025 4:02 PM, Keith Thompson wrote: > scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes: >> bart writes: > [...] >>> OK, tell me where to get ready-made DLLs for GMP and LIBFFI that I can >>> can use on Windows. >> >> Why do you think anybody owes you anything? The developers of those >> libraries, mostly working for free, make the source available for >> for free. They are required to make -your- life easy. >> >> Here's a thought - why don't you write your own multiprecision >> library and release it as open source? > [...] > > Or he could take a copy of GMP and modify it so it builds more easily on > Windows and release that. > vcpkg builds GMP wrt MSVC. I think it uses other tools as well, Mingw, cygwin, ect. But, well, luckily it worked for me. https://vcpkg.io/en/ GMP is a supported package at version: 6.3.0