On 22/04/2010 3:04 PM, Sharpie wrote:
Hello R developers,
I sincerely apologize if the answer to this question is clearly documented
somewhere, but I was unable to figure it out over my morning coffee.
I just downloaded today's release of R 2.11.0 and installed it on my Windows
7 64 bit VM. I also downloaded the latest version of Rtools211 from
Professor Murdoch's site. The first thing I attempted to do was build some
of my packages from source to check that they work with the new version. I
got the following error message:
making DLL ...
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-211~1.0-X/include" -O2
-Wall -std=gnu99 -c tikzDevice.c -o tikzDevice.o
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc: not found
This does not surprise me, R 2.11.0 is hot out of the forge and Rtools
probably hasn't been repacked to support the 64 bit version. I gathered
from the Windows FAQ and the list archives that the MinGW-w64 project
supplies the compilers and linkers used by the 64 bit version- I visited
their site and found the selection of packages available for download...
confusing.
I guess what I'm asking:
* Do I use the Cygwin binaries?
You can use the Rtools for the stuff other than the compilers. You need
the MinGW 64 bit versions of the compilers; they are not nicely packaged
yet, but the instructions for finding them are in the new version of the
R-admin manual, in the section 3.3, "Building R for 64 bit Windows".
Duncan Murdoch
* If not, is there an officially "blessed" binary distribution of Windows
x86_64 compilers and binutils?
* If not, do I build the x86_64 toolchain from the current HEAD, or is
there a specific revision that has been determined to be stable?
Thanks for your time and effort on maintaining and enhancing such a
wonderful language!
-Charlie
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Charlie Sharpsteen
Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering
Humboldt State University
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