Compile and install GNU MP Bignum Library on Mac OS X Yosemite

• Make sure you have xcode installed.
• Excute the following commands to download, compile and install gmp 6.0.0 into /usr/local.

  cd /tmp; wget https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.0.0a.tar.bz2; tar jxvf gmp-6.0.0a.tar.bz2; cd gmp-6.0.0
  
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
  
  make
  
  make check
  
  sudo make install
      

• To check where the files are installed, run

  find /usr/local | grep gmp

  and you should see something like below:

  /usr/local/include/gmp.h
  /usr/local/include/gmpxx.h
  /usr/local/lib/libgmp.10.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a
  /usr/local/lib/libgmp.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgmp.la
  /usr/local/lib/libgmpxx.4.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgmpxx.a
  /usr/local/lib/libgmpxx.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libgmpxx.la
  /usr/local/share/info/gmp.info
  /usr/local/share/info/gmp.info-1
  /usr/local/share/info/gmp.info-2

see also

• The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library