mexMPFR

A MATLAB MEX-Interface for the GNU MPFR Library.

This work and all included libraries are licensed under the terms of the LGPLv3.

Build requirements

The Matlab/Octave toolbox INTLAB is required and in order to build MEX-files in MATLAB, a supported compiler:

• Microsoft Windows:

  • Microsoft Visual C++ 2017 (Community, Professional, or Enterprise)
  • The GNU MPFR and MPIR libraries are accessible by the precompiled static library file mpfr.lib by Brian Gladman, located in the vendor directory.

• GNU/Linux:

  • GNU GCC and the development libraries libgmp-dev and libmpfr-dev.

    For the Ubuntu or Debian Linux distribution, all dependencies are easily obtained by running the command:

    sudo apt-get install gcc libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev
    

    For other Linux distributions the installation command and the package names might be slightly different.

After the compiler installation verify from the MATLAB command prompt, that the compiler is recognized correctly:

mex -setup

Building the MEX-Interface for GNU MPFR

In MATLAB one has to set the current directory to the root directory of this project. Then in the command prompt execute

startup

to invoke the compilation process.