.NET Security and Cryptography

Installing GMP

Now, you will want to download and build the GMP library. You can obtain the most recent version of GMP in source code format from http://www.gnu.org/directory/gnump.html. At the time of writing, the most recent version was gmp-4.0.1.tar.gz, as shown in Figure C-12.

Figure C-12. Getting GnuMP.

After you download the GMP tarball (i.e., gmp-4.0.1.tar.gz), you will have to decompress it, using WinZip or an equivalent utility. This creates a directory named gmp-4.0.1 (depending on the specific version you have downloaded), which you can put in some convenient place, such as at the root c:\ directory. At this point, the c:\gmp-4.0.1 ...