[R] dyn.load problem

[Uwe Ligges]

O. Neto wrote:

> Hi, Uwe.
> 
>     Thank you for help.
> 
>     Yesterday another R-user Mr. Ramasamy told me to do a simple program
> such as (changing too the directories, now C:/minhadll/):
> 
> /*file conv.c*/
> 
> #include <R.h>
> void printhello (){
>   Rprintf("%s", "hello world\n");
> }
> 
>     When I use C:\R\rw2000\bin>RCMD SHLIB -o c:/minhadll/meuteste.dll
> c:/minhadll/conv.c
>  to compile this one. Below is the output.
> 
> C:\R\rw2000\bin> RCMD SHLIB -o c:/minhadll/meuteste.dll c:/minhadll/conv.c
> making c:/minhadll/conv.d from c:/minhadll/conv.c
> gcc   -IC:/R/RW2000/include -Wall -O2   -c c:/minhadll/conv.c -o
> c:/minhadll/conv.o
> ar cr c:/minhadll/meuteste.a c:/minhadll/conv.o
> ranlib c:/minhadll/meuteste.a
> gcc  --shared -s  -o c:/minhadll/meuteste.dll c:/minhadll/meuteste.def
> c:/minhadll/meuteste.a  -LC:/R/RW2000/src/gnuwin32  -lg2c -lR
> 
>     The result is " meuteste.dll"  located in C:/minhadll/meuteste.dll. Now,
> talking about paths:
>     I believe that I have make a correct way... but I'll list here to you:
> 
> SET PATH=C:\Rtools\;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\R\rw2000\include\

I'd rather vote for
set PATH=.;C:\Rtools;C:\Perl\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH%

Anyway, this doesn't seem to be the culprit.
Do you have the recommended tools in their most recent versions?

The last point might be your OS. I think nobody of the developers is 
working on non-NT based Windows versions (such as 95, 98, ME) these days.


Uwe Ligges


>         Is it correct?
> Thank you again for help me. I'm trying to do a dll for 3 weeks or more,
> without a good result.
> 
> PS: The same error dyn.load appears
> 
> 
> O. Neto