rust, bignums and windows

Asked Jul 11 '17 at 08:13

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I've got rust 1.18.0 on windows 10 and I'd like to write something that uses bignums. The rug library looks like a good choice, but a cargo build on a project using it fails because building gmp calls ln -s somewhere down the line.

Is there a rust bignum library that can be compiled on windows out of the box?
If not, are there instructions somewhere for using rug with a prebuilt libgmp?

asked Jul 11 '17 at 08:13

https://gitlab.com/tspiteri/gmp-mpfr-sys#building-on-windows – Stargateur Jul 11 '17 at 08:22
I was hoping to avoid "install MSYS" if at all possible. – Jul 11 '17 at 08:25
@Bristol I think that if you want to use some tools for system languages under windows, it is always good to have the GNU tools. – Boiethios Jul 11 '17 at 08:53
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What kind of big numbers are you looking for? Does the `num` crate fulfill your needs? Note that we should not be asking recommendation questions. – E_net4 Jul 11 '17 at 10:02
I'll try with num. – Jul 11 '17 at 15:21

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