Trying to install CPAN Math::GMP. Can libgmp3 provide -libgmp?

[Reini Urban]

Marc Girod schrieb:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
>> Try another mirror.  It's listed on one or both of the mirrors below:
>>
>> ftp://sourceware.mirrors.tds.net
>> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org
>>
> OK, Thanks! Got that from the latter.
> However now that I compile the perl CPAN module: Math::GMP 2.05,
> I get a lot of compilation errors:
> 
> gcc -c   -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
> -I/usr/local/include -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O3   -DVERSION=\"2.05\"
> -DXS_VERSION=\"2.05\"  "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin/CORE"   GMP.c
> GMP.c: In function `XS_Math__GMP_destroy':
> GMP.c:161: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
> ...

That's a warning and it is expected, but this is not an error.
cygwin has a lot of wrong intsize warnings because we are one of the 
rare 64bitint platforms, which are mostly untested.
You can safely ignore these warnings.
For some major packages I try to send patches, but for Math::GMP not yet.

rurban@reini ~/.cpan/build/Math-GMP-2.05-9WIuVd
$ make test
/usr/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 
'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00_signature.....skipped: Set the environment variable TEST_SIGNATURE 
to enable this test
t/01_gmppm.........ok
t/99_perlcritic....skipped: Set the environment variable TEST_CRITIC to 
enable this test
t/99_pod...........skipped: Set the environment variable TEST_AUTHOR to 
enable this test
t/99_spellcheck....skipped: Set the environment variable TEST_SPELL to 
enable this test
t/99_yaml..........ok
All tests successful.
Files=6, Tests=354,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr  0.03 sys +  0.62 cusr 
  0.28 csys =  0.99 CPU)
Result: PASS

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Reini Urban
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