Documented autotools build process in readme

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John Driscoll 2014-05-25 13:54:13 -07:00
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* Use a precomputed table of multiples of powers of 16 multiplied with the generator, so general multiplication becomes a series of additions. * Use a precomputed table of multiples of powers of 16 multiplied with the generator, so general multiplication becomes a series of additions.
* Slice the precomputed table in memory per byte, so memory access to the table becomes uniform. * Slice the precomputed table in memory per byte, so memory access to the table becomes uniform.
* Not fully constant-time. * Not fully constant-time.
Build steps
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libsecp256k1 is built using autotools:
$ aclocal
$ autoreconf --install
$ automake
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install # optional