[Rd] problem adding gdb to RTOOLS40 on Windows

[Avraham Adler]

Also, packages should be installed in the MSYS2 environment and not the
MINGW64. Invoke msys2.exe, synchronize with Jeroen’s via the pacman -Syu,
and then try the install. It should work as Jeroen has gdb in the upstream
repository [
https://github.com/r-windows/rtools-packages/tree/master/mingw-w64-gdb]

Thanks,

Avi

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 2:59 AM Voeten, C.C. <c.c.voeten using hum.leidenuniv.nl>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Try pacman -Suy first to update pacman's package database. It's quite
> possible that the versions pacman is trying to install are no longer
> available due to being out of date.
>
> HTH,
> Cesko
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-devel <r-devel-bounces using r-project.org> On Behalf Of Bravington,
> Mark (Data61, Hobart)
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2021 6:53 AM
> To: R-Devel-2 <r-devel using r-project.org>
> Subject: [Rd] problem adding gdb to RTOOLS40 on Windows
>
> I've not been able to install gdb for RTOOLS40 on Windows 10. The rtools
> installer (rtools40-x64_86.exe) doesn't seem to include gdb by default, and
> when I follow the instructions for adding gdb (which I tracked down at
> https://github.com/r-windows/docs/blob/master/faq.md) this is what
> happened:
>
> <cd to c:\rtools\rtools40>
> <run mingw64.exe>
> $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
>
> Packages (8) mingw-w64-x86_64-expat-2.2.9-9002
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-gettext-0.19.8.1-9002
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-libsystre-1.0.1-9002
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-libtre-git-r128.6fb7206-9002
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-ncurses-6.1.20180526-9002
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-readline-8.0.001-2
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-termcap-1.3.1-9002
>              mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-8.3.1-9500
>
> Total Download Size:    3.46 MiB
> Total Installed Size:  83.77 MiB
>
> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
> :: Retrieving packages...
> error: failed retrieving file
> 'mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-8.3.1-9500-any.pkg.tar.xz' from cloud.r-project.org
> : The requested URL returned error: 404
> error: failed retrieving file
> 'mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-8.3.1-9500-any.pkg.tar.xz' from cran.r-project.org
> : The requested URL returned error: 404
> error: failed retrieving file
> 'mingw-w64-x86_64-gdb-8.3.1-9500-any.pkg.tar.xz' from dl.bintray.com :
> The requested URL returned error: 404
> warning: failed to retrieve some files
> error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files)
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>
> Something very similar happens if I try the 32bit version.
>
> Do you have any suggestions?
>
>  - I used to have this stuff working OK with R3.6/RTOOLS35 but have not
> needed to go back to C for a while. The version of gdb in RTOOLS is 7.9.1;
> I tried copying that gdb.exe into RTOOLS40 but it just exited instantly
> when I tried to run it from there.
>
>  - NB I have absolutely no idea what is meant by msys2 or pacman or any of
> that, I'm just following instructions...
>
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
>
>
>
> Mark Bravington
> CSIRO Marine Lab
> Hobart
> Australia
>
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