[Rd] Rtools for building 64 bit windows packages
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 -IC:/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? * 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 - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Rtools-for-building-64-bit-windows-packages-tp2021034p2021034.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Rtools for building 64 bit windows packages
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 -IC:/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 - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Rtools for building 64 bit windows packages
Duncan Murdoch-2 wrote: 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. Ahh, thank you Duncan- this was exactly the information I was looking for. When I looked in R-admin this morning, I skipped straight to Appendix D as I wasn't interested in building R, just packages. Thanks again! -Charlie - Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Rtools-for-building-64-bit-windows-packages-tp2021034p2022510.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
