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libtommath
This is the git repository for LibTomMath, a free open source portable number theoretic multiple-precision integer (MPI) library written entirely in C.
Build Status
Travis CI
AppVeyor
ABI Laboratory
API/ABI changes: check here
Pre-built packages
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packages of the latest state from the develop branch to packagecloud.io.
Use those packages with caution and at your own discretion.
Summary
The develop
branch contains the in-development version. Stable releases are tagged.
Documentation is built from the LaTeX file doc/bn.tex
and available as PDF for each release.
This PDF is also created as build artifact on each CI run.
There is also limited documentation in tommath.h
.
Originally the library contained a document, tommath.pdf
, which describes the goals of the project and many of the algorithms used at the time.
This document has been removed since it can't be built anymore and nobody spent the time to fix and update it.
The latest valid update to that document was done in version 0.39
of the library and it is contained within that tarball.
The project can be build by using make
. Along with the usual make
, make clean
and make install
,
there are several other build targets, see the makefile for details.
There are also makefiles for certain specific platforms.
Testing
Tests are located in demo/
and can be built in two flavors.
make test
creates a stand-alone test binary that executes several test routines.make mtest_opponent
creates a test binary that is intended to be run againstmtest
.mtest
can be built withmake mtest
and test execution is done like./mtest/mtest | ./mtest_opponent
.mtest
is creating test vectors using an alternative MPI library andtest
is consuming these vectors to verify correct behavior of ltm
Building and Installing
Building is straightforward for GNU Linux only, the section "Building LibTomMath" in the documentation in doc/bn.pdf
has the details.
CMake support
The project provides support for the CMake build system.
git clone https://github.com/libtom/libtommath.git
mkdir -p libtommath/build
cd libtommath/build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)
A shared library build can be done by setting -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=On
when invoking the cmake
command.