[Rd] Package crashes R under Windows Vista

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/09/2009 6:12 PM, cstrato wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Please, please I really need your help, since I am not able to solve the 
> problem myself:
> It seems that until now most Windows users of my Bioconductor package 
> "xps" use Windows XP, but recently a user tried to use it on Windows 
> Vista where it crashed R immediately. Since I assume that some users may 
> migrate to the upcoming Windows 7 where the problem will be the same, I 
> would appreciate any help to be able to support Vista/Windows 7, thank 
> you in advance.

You are requiring specific Microsoft tools to compile a package, which 
fails on one Microsoft OS, but not another.  Isn't this a question you 
should address to Microsoft?

For the record:

We support compiling in the compiler listed in the R-admin manual, which 
is available from www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools.  If you choose to 
use a different compiler, you should seek support from its supplier.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> The problem ist that my package consists mainly of C++ code which I must 
> compile with Visual C++ (Express Edition 2008), since it depends on the 
> ROOT C++ framework. Windows users download and install first the ROOT 
> Windows binary compiled with VC9 and then install the Windows binary of xps.
> 
> Thus package xps contains a "Makefile.win" where I use one of the 
> compiler options "/MT" or "/MD", respectively, see: 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2kzt1wy3.aspx
> 
> Since the Windows binary of ROOT is compiled with option "/MD" I should 
> in principle use this option, however, R does not accept this option. 
> Luckily, for Winodws XP I can compile xps with "/MT" and this works 
> perfectly fine.
> 
> The real problem is that neither option works on Windows Vista, although 
> I can run "R CMD INSTALL" in both cases. However, when loading 
> "library(xps)" using Rterm.exe I get the following two cases:
> 
> 1, xps compiled on Vista with option "/MD":
>    new R session:
>    > library(xps,lib.loc="C:/home/Rabbitus/CRAN/myRlib")
>    Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
>      cannot load shared library 'C:/home/CS/CRAN/myRlib/xps/libs/xps.dll':
>     LoadLibrary failure:  A DLL-Initialisationroutine failed.
> 
> Then R crashes and Vista displays a Dialogbox with the following message:
> R for Windows terminal front-end does no longer function
>   Anwendungszeitstempel:    4a928a5c
>   Fehlermodulname:    libCore.dll_unloaded
>   Fehlermodulversion:    0.0.0.0
>   Fehlermodulzeitstempel:    4a4b94a1
>   Ausnahmecode:    c0000005
>   Ausnahmeoffset:    0413a6f0
>   Betriebsystemversion:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
>   Gebietsschema-ID:    1031
>   Zusatzinformation 1:    b2be
>   Zusatzinformation 2:    82109204b3973566ace818217390e302
>   Zusatzinformation 3:    1563
>   Zusatzinformation 4:    deee40b8797d25628c21b9ef47e8a50c
> 
> 2, xps compiled on Vista with option "/MT":
>    new R session:
>    > library(xps,lib.loc="C:/home/CS/CRAN/myRlib")
>    > scheme.test3 <- 
> root.scheme(paste(.path.package("xps"),"schemes/SchemeTest3.root",sep="/"))
>    > data.test3 <- import.data(scheme.test3, "DataTest3", 
> celdir=paste(.path.package("xps"),"raw",sep="/"))
> 
>    ==========================================
>    =============== STACKTRACE ===============
>    ==========================================
> 
> 
>    ==========================================
>    ============= END STACKTRACE =============
>    ==========================================
> 
> Then R crashes and Vista displays a Dialogbox with the following message:
> R for Windows terminal front-end does no longer function
> Problemsignatur:
>   Problemereignisname:    APPCRASH
>   Anwendungsname:    Rterm.exe
>   Anwendungsversion:    2.92.49384.0
>   Anwendungszeitstempel:    4a928a5c
>   Fehlermodulname:    ntdll.dll
>   Fehlermodulversion:    6.0.6001.18000
>   Fehlermodulzeitstempel:    4791a7a6
>   Ausnahmecode:    c0000005
>   Ausnahmeoffset:    0006814c
>   Betriebsystemversion:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
>   Gebietsschema-ID:    1031
>   Zusatzinformation 1:    92ec
>   Zusatzinformation 2:    c556221fb8ba46fdaae5867fc20d6575
>   Zusatzinformation 3:    c65f
>   Zusatzinformation 4:    9d4dfe391e0e922aa627634d4d47a122
> 
> 
> Here is the same information for Windows XP:
> 
> 1, xps compiled on WinXP with option "/MD":
>    new R session:
>    > library(xps,lib.loc="C:/home/CS/CRAN/myRlib")
> 
> R crashes and the following Dialogbox from "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime 
> Library" is displayed:
>    Runtime Error!
>    Program: c:\Programme\R\R-2.9.0\bin\Rterm.exe
>    R6034
>    An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library 
> incorrectly.
>    Please contact the application's support team for more  information.
> 
> 2, xps compiled on WinXP with option "/MT":
>    new R session:
>    > library(xps,lib.loc="C:/home/CS/CRAN/myRlib")
> Luckily, R runs w/o any  problems and this is the setting of the current 
> Windows binary of "xps".
> 
> In summary, on WinXP package xps must be compiled with option "/MT" to 
> be used with R.
> 
> In contrast, on Vista library(xps) does not work when compiled with 
> either option:
> - for option "/MT" library(xps) can be loaded but crashes R with 
> "Errormodulename: "ntdll.dll"
> - for option "/MD" library(xps) cannot be loaded, since the ROOT library 
> "libCore.dll" cannot be loaded ("Errormodulename: "libCore.dll_unloaded")
> 
> It is important to note that on both WinXP AND Vista library "xps.dll" 
> compiled with option "/MD" does work perfectly fine when running from 
> within ROOT!
> 
> Please, can anybody tell me why Rterm on Vista crashes when running 
> library(xps)?
> It seems that for option "/MD" Rterm is not able to load the ROOT core 
> library "libCore.dll", why?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated otherwise my package "xps" will not be 
> able to run on Vista and more important, Windows 7.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> Best regards
> Christian
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