On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >> (The GMP library, for example, has no official binary releases. You have >> to build from source, > > > So using it on Windows isn't supported very well. This is > in contrast to Python, for which a pretty comprehensive set > of Windows binaries *is* available. >
It's more that people on Windows don't tend to "install GMP". They install program XYZ, which creates a window on the screen. The assumption is that it will include all the DLLs that it needs. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list