Using MPIR and MPFR in Windows

MPIR and MPFR (written by Jose Pascoa)

MPIR is based on GMP and can run in GMP compatibility mode. Unlike GMP, MPIR can be compiled for Windows out-of-the-box.
I built MPIR DLLs and Static Libraries, for 32-bit as P4 (Pentium 4) and for 64-bit as Core2. This will cover most of the existing Intel machines up to i7. I am not sure how the included compilations will behave on AMD processors (they may crash or not, so use everything at your own risk).

MPFR is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding. It works either with GMP or MPIR. Using hints provided here, and after struggling a bit, I managed to build 32-bit and 64-bit MPFR DLLs and Static Libraries for Windows.

To confirm everything worked as expected I made a full project and built 32-bit and 64-bit executables to run either dynamically linked or statically linked.

On the MPIR-only test, which consists of a Pollard's Rho factorization, 64-bit executables performed almost twice as fast as 32-bit executables. This is good news when lots of software actually run slow when compiled as 64-bit.

If you are new to the MPIR/GMP/MPFR Open Source multiple precision packages and want to learn fast how to use them from Visual Studio, then download the complete project from HERE, it is free. It includes the MPIR and MPFR binaries and static libraries (reason why is about 4 MB).

Big numbers are fascinating!