Alex Martelli wrote: > Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > >>I tried compiling it with the MS free toolkit but the C compile >>complains about the absence of "gmp.h". Since I see such a header in my >>Cygwin installation I presume it's something that a full VC7 >>installation could expect to be present. > > > gmp.h is the header of GMP, the GNU library that gmpy wraps. It appears > to be preinstalled on Cygwin, from what you mention, but I'm pretty sure > Microsoft doesn't preinstall GPL-covered libraries from GNU with THEIR > stuff... a suitable Windows version need to be procured and installed in > some other way (having no Windows around I'm hard put to suggest what is > the best way to do this these days). > > >>So I'm afraid you might need someone with access to VC to test this on >>Windows for you, sorry. > > > Tx for the attempt, but I don't think VC per se will suffice -- somebody > needs to build or find a suitable version of GMP for Windows, too. > > Yes indeed. I took a look at the gmplib source distro, but it would mean installing way too much other stuff to be practical right now, unfortunately.
As a consolation prize you might like to know that it appears to build and pass all tests happily under Cygwin. Sorry I can't be more help. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
