[Rd] Setting the path to Rtools for package compilation on Windows

[Tomas Kalibera]

Thanks for the report - this has been already reported as bug 17376, it 
is caused by scripts that build the Windows binaries and by now has been 
fixed in R-patched and R-devel snapshot builds. So as a solution that 
works now I would recommend using R-patched.

Tomas


On 02/13/2018 08:33 AM, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
> I can confirm the behaviour that you report.
>
> Usually I put Rtools in c:\programs\Rtools and modify the path
> accordingly. Recently (don't recall for how long) I have encountered
> the same problems as you have and I have resorted to moving Rtools to
> c:\Rtools
>
> I have no idea as how to proceed; perhaps it could be worth trying an
> older version of Rtools (though that may cause other problems).
>
> Regards
> Søren
>
>
> On Mon, 2018-02-12 at 22:45 -0800, Peter Langfelder wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to set up the Windows Rtools toolset for building packages
>> with compiled code. I installed for Windows R-3.4.3 from CRAN and
>> installed Rtools-3.4 in a custom location M:\R\R-3.4.3 and
>> M:\R\Rtools-3.4
>>
>> Following the instructions, in shell, I set
>> Path=M:\R\Rtools-3.4\bin;M:\R\Rtools-3.4\gcc-4.6.3\bin;M:\R\R-
>> 3.4.3\bin;...
>> (the ... are other paths irrelevant for R/Rtools).
>>
>> When I run
>>
>> M:\Work\RLibs>R.exe CMD INSTALL --build WGCNA
>>
>> I get the following ouput:
>>
>> In R CMD INSTALL
>> * installing to library 'M:/R/R-3.4.3/library'
>> * installing *source* package 'WGCNA' ...
>> ** libs
>>
>> *** arch - i386
>> c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/g++  -I"M:/R/R-3.4.3/include" -DNDEBUG
>> -O2 -Wall  -mtune=generic -c bucketApproxSort.cc
>> -o bucketApproxSort.o
>> c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/g++: not found
>> make: *** [bucketApproxSort.o] Error 127
>> Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars.win" -f
>> "M:/R/R-3.4.3/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "M:/R/R-3.4.3/share/make/winshli
>> b.mk" SHLIB_LDFLAGS='$(SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS)' SHLIB_LD='$(SHLIB_CXXLD)'
>> SHLIB="WGCNA.dll" OBJECTS="bucketApproxSort.o corFun
>> ctions-common.o corFunctions-unified.o networkFunctions.o pivot.o
>> quantileC.o"' had status 2
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package 'WGCNA'
>> * removing 'M:/R/R-3.4.3/library/WGCNA'
>> * restoring previous 'M:/R/R-3.4.3/library/WGCNA'
>>
>>
>> Apparently the install is looking for Rtools in c:\Rtools. I am a
>> perpetual Windows newbie and would be really thankful for any
>> pointers
>> as to how to proceed.
>>
>> Peter
>>
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