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author | Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> | 2000-04-15 03:47:06 +0200 |
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committer | Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> | 2000-04-15 03:47:06 +0200 |
commit | f37a04e66fbd1d9ab62c9876116d466873ee9a91 (patch) | |
tree | 92bb10f7a1fa13f3a87a35e1b2baec55bb0db5f8 /README | |
parent | 5d149582a6cb51b21b3dfff88532f9f50021fdf4 (diff) | |
download | gmp-f37a04e66fbd1d9ab62c9876116d466873ee9a91.tar.gz |
* README: Small updates.
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@@ -18,25 +18,26 @@ operations, since GNU MP in many cases has asymptotically faster algorithms. GETTING STARTED -First, you have to configure and compiler GNU MP. Simply typing +First, you have to configure and compile GNU MP. Simply typing - ./configure; make + ./configure; make will normally do a reasonable job, but will not give optimal library execution speed. So unless you're very impatient, please read the detailed -instructions in the file INSTALL or in gmp.texi. +instructions in gmp.texi or gmp.info. Once you have compiled the library, you should write some small example, and -make sure you can compile them. A typical compilation command is this: +make sure you can compile it. A typical compilation command is this: - gcc -g your-file.c -I<gmp-source-dir> <gmp-bin-dir>/libgmp.a -lm + gcc -g your-file.c -I<gmp-source-dir> <gmp-bin-dir>/.libs/libgmp.a -lm If you have installed the library, you can simply do: - gcc -g your-file.c -lgmp -lm + gcc -g your-file.c -lgmp -lm The -lm is normally not needed, since only a few functions in GNU MP use the -math library. +math library. GNU MP is libtool based, so you can use that to compile and +link if you want. Here is a sample program that declares 2 variables, initializes them as required, and sets one of them from a signed integer, and the other from a |