Thread: Problem compiling GMP code

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    Unhappy Problem compiling GMP code

    Hi all!

    As I said in a previous post, I'm working with HUGE numbers, and it was suggested to me to try GMP.

    I have installed it on /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4 (with "./configure" and then "make") as it was said to be de default location. The installing procedures seemed to be ok. The validation tests were fine too.

    So, I've wrote the following test.c file:

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <gmp.h>
    
    int main (){
    
    mpz_t i;
    
    return;
    }
    At first, I tried to compile with
    gcc -o test test.c -lgmp
    but I got a "gmp.h - File not found"

    Then, I tried
    gcc -o test test.c -I /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4 -lgmp
    and
    gcc -o test test.c -I /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4 -L /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4 -lgmp
    and
    gcc -o test test.c -I /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4/ -L /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4/lib -lgmp

    but for all of them I got a "cannot find -lgmp"

    As you can probably see, I'm not a C expert, so I would like to apologize if I am doing something obviously wrong. But the fact is that I am not able to simply compile that code...

    PLEASE, HELP!!!

    Thanks in advance,

    Bruno
    Last edited by Bruno Couto; 10-07-2005 at 07:17 AM.

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    You could check your /usr/local/gmp-4.1.4/lib to see if there are indeed any libraries at all in that directory.

    I prefer specifying paths before files
    gcc -I/usr/local/gmp-4.1.4/ -L/usr/local/gmp-4.1.4/lib -o test test.c -lgmp

    The command syntax is right, I think all you need is to find where the file is, and what it's name is.

    Also, FYI, calling your program 'test' is a bad idea since there is a shell command by the same name.
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    Code:
    return;
    I don't think you can do that from a function that returns int. Put
    Code:
    return 0;
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