[Rd] building R under mingw 4.7

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 08/09/2013 12:35, Jonathon Love wrote:
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> Hi,
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> We're developing a Qt application that links against R using Rcpp.

We are guessing on Windows, not mentioned here.

> Qt5 requires Mingw 4.7, where as R seems to require Mingw 4.6. This
 > makes linking against R problematic.

AFAICS there are no such versions, and in any case R on Windows supports 
Mingw-w64 (not Mingw which is a separate project).

'R' does not require any particular compiler: you can compile your 
application with whatever you like, and compile R in the same way.

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