[Rd] Calling C in R in Windows 64 bit

[Henrik Bengtsson]

Is the dash in "–lR" really a dash?  Shouldn't it be "-lR" so it is
interpreted as a flag/option?!

My $.02

/H

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 5:20 AM,  <aysun.cetinyurek at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> I am trying to run some C/ Fortran code in R. Although I have experience with that in Windows (Vista) 32 bit, I could not succeed in 64 bit. I downloaded the following:
> - R 2.12.0
> - Rtools 212
> - miktex 2.9
> - inno setup 5
>
> -Afterwards, I changed the path as:
> ‘C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\bin;C:\Rtools\bin;C:\Rtools\MinGW64\bin;C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop;C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeBlocks\bin;C:\Program Files\Insight\bin;C:\Rtools\perl\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Broadcom\Broadcom 802.11\Driver;’
>
> - started Command Prompt and checked the path by typing 'path'
> - then I typed
>
> 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -c COXPHmatprod24delta.c -o COXPHmatprod24delta.o -I"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\include"'
>
> the above command produced the file with .o extension.
>
> -Afterwards I typed
> 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -shared -o COXPHmatprod24delta.dll COXPHmatprod24delta.o -I"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\include" -L"C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0\bin" –lR'
>
> it produces the error:
> 'x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc: -lR: No such file or directory'
>
> -The problem here is that it does not produce .dll file. I cannot find the solution to that although I tried for 2 days.
>
>
>
> --Alternatively I tried ‘R CMD SHLIB COXPHmatprod24delta.c’ and it produces the error:
> 'cygwin warning:
>  MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.0/etc/i386/Makeconf
>  Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.0/etc/i386/Makec
> onf
>  CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
>  Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>    http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
> nm: not found
> gcc -shared -s -static-libgcc -o COXPHmatprod24delta.dll tmp.def COXPHmatprod24d
> elta.o -LC:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.0/bin/i386 -lR
> gcc: not found'
>
> Every comment is appreciated. Many thanks in advance.
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> Aysun Cetinyurek
>
> Services de Statistique
> Institut de Mathématique (B37)
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> B4000 Liège
> Belgique
>
>
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