[R] R CMD SHLIB errors

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Using 'mingw32-make' indicates that you have not followed the instructions 
accurately.  You *must* have the Rtools/bin directory ahead of all other 
tools in your PATH.

Please check again (and again) that you have followed the prescription in 
'R Installation and Administration'.

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, sun wrote:

> I got errors when I tried to compile my code into dll on XP box.
>
> "C:/R/R-2.6.2/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:235: warning: overriding commands for
> target `.c.d'
> C:/R/R-2.6.2/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:223: warning: ignoring old commands for
> target `.c.d'
> C:/R/R-2.6.2/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:255: warning: overriding commands for
> target `.c.o'
> C:/R/R-2.6.2/src/gnuwin32/MkRules:243: warning: ignoring old commands for
> target `.c.o'
> mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `''.o', needed by `'''.  Stop."
>
> So I decide to try the example in "writing R extensions" c++ code example
> x.hh,x.cc and xmain.cc, I compiled with "r cmd shlib x.cc xmain.cc" and got
> the same error output:
> "mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target `x.cc''.  Stop."
>
> I was able to compile dll before, since then I have updated R, installed
> other softwares, so I am a bit confusing at this moment what would be the
> cause of this problem. Could some please give some suggestions?  Thanks in
> advance.
>
> Sun
>
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