On 2010-10-15, at 4:39 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 15/10/2010 4:53 PM, Davor Cubranic wrote: >> It appears that Mingw gcc included in RTools is missing a dependent >> library. If I compile a program with '-lgomp' switch (for OpenMP >> support), I get a errors about undefined references to functions like >> '_imp__pthread_mutex_destroy'. Adding the '-static' switch, I get the >> following error: >> >> >> c:/rtools/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: >> cannot find -lpthread >> >> Sure enough, there is neither libpthread.a nor libpthread.dll under >> RTools' installation directory. I think these library are standard in >> Cygwin. Is there any chance to include them in RTools, too? > > Rtools is for building R, and that library isn't needed in R. If you want it > for some particular purpose, can't you just install a copy on your machine?
Yes, I can. But does it make sense for the compiler to have support for OpenMP (i.e., allow -fopenmp), but not include its library dependency so that it fails in the linking phase? Davor ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
