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Re: no recommended mpfr installation for building gfortran
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:38:06AM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 01:05, Tim Prince wrote:
> > I see that the messages for configure say now that gmp and mpfr must be
> > installed, rather than simply saying gfortran is not supported under
> > cygwin. I tried installing both the cygwin gmp, and gmp-4.1, which
> > requires about 10 instances of commenting out conflicting declarations to
> > build with gcc. Googling for mpfr produces only vague messages about some
> > day it will be included in gmp. I try to look up mpfr on the gfortran site
> > and find nothing about where to get it. On comp.lang.fortran, recently,
> > several people have made posts offering zip files of collections of what
> > purport to be gfortran binaries, with all directory structure removed, no
> > indication of what version of gcc they go with.
>
> I'm not sure what your question is, but the gmp/mpfr requirements are
> documented here: http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html
> complete with links to where to find it.
>
> If you want precompiled binaries then that's a different matter. We (FSF/GCC)
> do not provide precompiled binaries. gfortran is part of a version of gcc
> that has not been released yet, so there aren't many people making binary
> packages.
>
Our very own Bud Davis has registered www.gfortran.org.
You can get cygwin binaries from there. I, however,
have no experience with GCC on Windows, so can't vouch
for what you get from www.gfortran.org.
--
Steve