Make Gnu MP library with minGW: "Nothing to be done for Makefile.in"

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I want to use the GMP (https://gmplib.org/) on Windows, so i downloaded the folder called gmp-6.1.0 and tried to use mingw32-make.exe on it. It printed: "mingw32-make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." But there is a Makefile.in in the folder. When i tried "mingw32.exe Makefile.in" it printed out "Nothing to be done for Makefile.in".

I really don't know what to do here, since a guy over here: How to compile makefile using MinGW? said i'd just need to mingw32.exe makefile.in

As indicated in GMP docs, you should first launch "configure" command to generate the final makefile, that will be named "makefile", so that the "mingw32-make" command will work well. — Laurent H., Apr 23 '16 at 20:39
Ok I figured out that I need MSYS to do that. thanks for your advice. — Timothy J, Apr 24 '16 at 07:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 24 '16 at 19:34

To install GMP you should:
1. Install MSYS or Cygwin (with at least Autotools package and make utility)
2. Run "./configure" command in order to generate the makefile, simply called "makefile"
3. Run "make" command to build
4. Run "make install" to install GMP

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 30 '20 at 14:17

So if you're using Vscode and Mingw then you should first make sure that the bin folder of the Mingw is included in the environment path and it is preferred to change the mingw32-make.exe to make to ease the task and then create a makefile and include this code in it .

all:
    gcc -o filename filename.c
    ./filename

Then save the makefile and open Vscode Code terminal and write make. Then makefile will get executed.

Make Gnu MP library with minGW: "Nothing to be done for Makefile.in"

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