Thanks Joe, obviously I made the error of including R.dll on the command line, sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote: > On 10/18/2010 10:00 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > > > > The procedure for creating an import library (Rdll.lib) that is > documented > > in gnuwin32/README.packages works fine using the i386 architecture, but > > it doesn't seem to work under x64. > > > > Specifically, the procedure is: > > pexports R.dll > R.exp > > lib /def:R.exp /out:Rdll.lib /machine:X86 R.dll > > > > There are two issues under x64: > > 1. Older version of pexports crash when applied to an x64 R.dll. > > The work-around is to use one of the newer versions that have > > been fixed (pexports-9.44, say). > > 2. When lib is applied to an x64 R.dll it complains as follows: > > R.dll : fatal error LNK1107: invalid or corrupt file: cannot read at > 0x318 > > > > This happens even when the /def:R.exp parameter is left out, for > > example, with lib /out:Rdll.lib R.dll. > > > > Any tips would be much appreciated. > > I successfully did the following recently in order to build 64 bit PL/R > on Windows 7: > > ---------------- > dumpbin /exports R.dll > R.dump.csv > > Note that I used the csv extension so OpenOffice would import the file > into a spreadsheet conveniently. > > Edit R.dump.csv to produce a one column file of symbols called R.def. > Add the following two lines to the top of the file: > LIBRARY R > EXPORTS > > Then run the following using R.def > > lib /def:R.def /out:R.lib > ---------------- > > HTH, > > Joe > > > -- > Joe Conway > credativ LLC: http://www.credativ.us > Linux, PostgreSQL, and general Open Source > Training, Service, Consulting, & 24x7 Support > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
