[Rd] Missing libpthread in RTools

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Davor Cubranic wrote:

> 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?

For the MinGW project, yes.  The 'Min' stands for 'minimal'.

Note that there are a lot of issues with gcc using pthreads for OMP on 
Windows, and the gcc developers are working on a different solution.

>
> Davor
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