[Rd] Compiling PL/R against R.dll in Win32/MinGW

[Mike Leahy]

Hello list,

I've been trying to get the PostgreSQL PL/R library to compile on
windows (http://www.joeconway.com/plr/).  The author of this library
says the problem is likely because the distributed R.dll isn't compiled
as a shared dll.  Is this the case?  If so, is there any way to compile
it such that it is shared?  If that's not the case, than maybe someone
on this list has a better understanding of the errors I'm getting (below).

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Mike

gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing
  -I. -Ic:/Progra~1/R/R-2.3.0alpha/include
-Ic:/Progra~1/R/R-2.3.0alpha/include -I. -Ic:/MinGW/include/server
-Ic:/MinGW/incl
ude/internal -I./src/include/port/win32 -DEXEC_BACKEND
"-IC:/msys/pgsql/lib/pgxs/src/MAKEFI~1/../../src/include/port/win32"
-Ic:/MinGW/include/server/port/win32 -Ic:/msys/src/pgsql/src/include
-Ic:/msys/src/pgsql/src/include/port/win32 -DPKGLIBDIR=\
"c:/MinGW/lib\" -DDLSUFFIX=\".dll\"  -c -o pg_rsupport.o pg_rsupport.c
dlltool --export-all  --output-def plr.def plr.o pg_conversion.o
pg_backend_support.o pg_userfuncs.o pg_rsupport.o
dllwrap  -o libplr.dll --dllname libplr.dll  --def plr.def plr.o
pg_conversion.o pg_backend_support.o pg_userfuncs.o pg_rsupp
ort.o -Lc:/Progra~1/R/R-2.3.0alpha/bin -Lc:/Progra~1/R/R-2.3.0alpha/bin
-Lc:/MinGW/lib -Lc:/MinGW/lib -lR -lpostgres
Info: resolving _pkglib_path by linking to __imp__pkglib_path (auto-import)
Info: resolving _Dynamic_library_path by linking to
__imp__Dynamic_library_path (auto-import)
plr.o(.text+0xe3):plr.c: undefined reference to `Rf_initEmbeddedR'
pg_conversion.o(.text+0x12d3):pg_conversion.c: undefined reference to
`ARR_OVERHEAD'
fu000061.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libpostgres_a_iname'
fu000062.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libpostgres_a_iname'
fu000064.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libpostgres_a_iname'
nmth000060.o(.idata$4+0x0): undefined reference to `_nm__pkglib_path'
nmth000063.o(.idata$4+0x0): undefined reference to
`_nm__Dynamic_library_path'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
c:\MinGW\bin\dllwrap.exe: c:\MinGW\bin\gcc exited with status 1
make: *** [libplr.a] Error 1