Compiling and Installing MPFR

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Run the following commands to decompress the installation package:

   tar -xvf mpfr-3.1.4.tar.bz2

3. Run the following command to switch to the directory in which the decompressed files are stored:

   cd mpfr-3.1.4/

4. Run the following command to perform compilation and installation:

   ./configure --prefix=/path/to/MPFR/mpfr-3.1.4 --with-gmp=/path/to/GMP/gmp-6.1.0

   make

   make install

5. Run the following command to load environment variables:

   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/MPFR/mpfr-3.1.4/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

   The following figure shows directory contents when the installation is successful.