[R] Problems when building a package for Windows 64

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 11/03/2012 19:43, Eduardo Mendes wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have recently installed R 2.14.2 on a brand new pc running Windows 64.
> One of things I would like to do is to recompile my R package (with C and
> fortran source codes) for this new environment (it works on a mac and on a
> linux box).  To this end, I had rtools 2.14 downloaded and installed (I
> have also added 2.14.2/bin/x64 to PATH so that Rcmd works on a terminal).

That's the error you made.  That toolchain is the default for R <= 
2.14.1 but not for 2.14.2.  Please do the homework the posting guide 
asked of you, e.g. read http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/ or 
if you want to use the earlier version of Rtools, read 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html and set MkRules.local 
accordingly.

> On a cmd terminal I issue the command Rcmd INSTALL build name_of_my_package
> to get
>
> (x86 works fine)
>
> *** arch - x64
> cygwin warning:
>    MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.2/etc/x64/Makeconf
>    Preferred POSIX equivalent is:
> /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-214~1.2/etc/x64/Makeco
> nf
>    CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this
> warning.

That's in the manual, too ....

>    Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
>      http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames
> gfortran -m64     -O2  -mtune=core2 -c correl.f -o correl.o
> f951.exe: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
> make: *** [correl.o] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ed
>
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