GMP-4.1.4

Introduction to GMP

The GMP package contains math libraries. These have useful functions for arbitrary precision arithmetic.

Install GMP by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-cxx \
    --enable-mpbsd --enable-mpfr &&
make &&
make install

--enable-cxx: This parameter enables C++ support by building the libgmpxx libraries.

--enable-mpbsd: This parameter enables building the Berkeley MP compatibility (libmp) libraries.

--enable-mpfr: This parameter enables building the Multiple Precision Floating-Point Reliable (libmpfr.a) library.

libgmp and libmp libraries contain functions to operate on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.