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Compiling 64-bit mpir using VC++ 2008 Express

MPIR is a Windows-friendly fork of GMP. It can be used as a direct replacement of GMP. I wanted to have my pycrypto build use _fastmath, and that meant having GMP support. Building a 64-bit version of MPIR is fully supported in Visual C++ 2010 Express. Not so, alas, for Visual C++ 2008 Express. The …

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Compiling pycrypto on Win7-64

Having had occasion to compile pycrypto 2.3.1 for Win7-64 and Python 2.7.1-64, I’ll share the process, and the result. Note 2016-02-03: This post is seriously old at this point, and pycrypto is not being actively maintained. Use pycryptodome, a fork of pycrypto, instead. It installs easily on Windows, pre-compiled or compiled from source, with good …

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