MIRACL installation with GCC?

[veraction]

MIRACL (http://indigo.ie/~mscott/) includes a program to factor numbers. It comes with the source, and a win32 exe file. I want to run this natively on my ubuntu box (not through wine).

So, I guess I need to install the MIRACL libraries, but I am having trouble.

I have the instructions in the manual.ps file, but when it says to run a command, I get an error:
$ ls
amd64.txt double.txt include makemcs.txt msvisual.txt SSE2.TXT
a.out exe itanium.txt manual.doc problems.txt update.txt
arm.txt factor.c kcmcomba.txt mex.c readme.txt
borland.txt first.txt KCM.TXT mex.o smartmip.txt
config.c float.txt lib miracl.lst source
config.o free linux.txt mirdef.h sparc.txt

$ gcc -I. -c -O2 mr*.c
gcc: mr*.c: No such file or directory
gcc: no input files


Now there are a bunch of mr*.c files in the source directory, but if I run the command in there, I'll get 5000+ lines of errors.


So, anyone install MIRACL on ubuntu and have any hints?

[toojays]

Sorry to not have a direct answer for your question, but you may have better luck with the GNU Multiprecision Library (http://swox.com/gmp/), which is in the Ubuntu repositories, and is Free Software.

[veraction]

Thanks for the response.

I have been using GMP for a while now, but I wanted to use MIRACL's factoring number program since it is faster than anything I could do myself manually in GMP & it is faster than GMP's Pollard Rho factor demo.

Guess it would be possible to translate it maybe, I'm not willing to invest that much time