[Rd] Error building Tcl: R-patched_2016-07-05

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 8 00:33:30 CEST 2016


On 07/07/2016 5:47 PM, Avraham Adler wrote:
> I am trying to build R under 64bit Windows7. I am using a fresh
> install of Rtools34 and R-patched_2016-07-05. I am getting the
> following error:
>
> C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/gcc -shared -s -static-libgcc -o tcltk.dll tmp.def init.o
>  tcltk.o tcltk_win.o ../../../gnuwin32/dllversion.o -L../../../../Tcl/bin64 -ltc
> l85 -ltk85 -LC:/R/RLocalSoft/lib/x64 -LC:/R/RLocalSoft/lib -L../../../../bin/x64
>  -lR
> C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9.3/../../../../x86_64-w6
> 4-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -ltcl85
> C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9.3/../../../../x86_64-w6
> 4-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -ltk85
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> cp: cannot stat 'tcltk.dll': No such file or directory
>
>
> Looking into R64/Tcl/bin64, I see that the versions provided are
> tcl86.dll and tk86.dll, which probably means that line 85 of
> R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/fixed/etc/Makeconf needs to be changed from:
>
> TCL_VERSION = 85
>
> to
>
> TCL_VERSION = 86

That is the current setting in R-devel, and has been since revision 
70701 on June 3.  (It is 85 in the 3.3 branch.)

Duncan Murdoch



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