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authorvlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2013-03-12 02:18:35 +0000
committervlefevre <vlefevre@280ebfd0-de03-0410-8827-d642c229c3f4>2013-03-12 02:18:35 +0000
commit37e325e74779b523af693a3bdd9df04aa6f2d8e9 (patch)
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[INSTALL] Added a paragraph about Cygwin and threading.
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@@ -581,7 +581,6 @@ a. Using MinGW
Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 for 80x86, Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing
Compiler Version 16.00.30319.01 for x64).
-
b. Using Cygwin
===============
@@ -591,6 +590,10 @@ Visual Studio as with MinGW. Indeed, the binaries compiled with Cygwin
require a dynamic library (cygwin.dll) to work; there is a Cygwin option
-mno-cygwin to build native code, but it may require some non-portable tricks.
+In case of failure, you may need to pass LDFLAGS='-shared-libgcc' at the
+end of the configure line due to a bug in GCC. Otherwise, if threading
+support is not needed, you can configure MPFR with --disable-thread-safe.
+
c. Using Visual C++ 2008/2010
=============================