[R] Building a dll for windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Victor Moreno wrote:

> This is a recurrent question but could not find the answer in the
> documentation.
>
> I want to build a dll for windows from a fortran program to be loaded with
> dyn.load. I can do it easily for linux with: g77 -shared -o foo.dll foo.f
>
> The g77 compiler (mingw-1.01) for windows does not recognise the -shared
> option.
>
> In windows the Writing extensions manual tells to use Rcmd SHLIB but I can't
> find Rcmd
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Just to add a small piece: with that compiler g77 --shared -o foo.dll
foo.f works for me.  Note, --shared.

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