[R-pkg-devel] win-builder, compiling C code, make[1]: ar: Command not found
Gillian Sharer
gillian at iris.washington.edu
Sat Oct 8 00:44:04 CEST 2016
Thank you for your response. I apologize for asking basic questions, but I’m new to this. On my local machine (mac osx) the $R_HOME/etc/Makeconf AR=ar and $BINPREF is not set. I have ar in my path.
I’m uploading the package to http://win-builder.r-project.org/ using devtools::build_win. Am I right in thinking the path in question is on the Windows machine? I don’t have access to the Windows Makeconf file, so do I need to set something in the Makevars.win file?
I tried adding this to the src/Makevars.win file:
AR=$(BINPREF)ar
Then I tried:
BINPREF=/mingw_$(WIN)/bin/
AR=$(BINPREF)ar
And:
BINPREF=d:/Compiler/gcc-4.9.3/mingw_32/bin/
AR=$(BINPREF)ar
None of these changed the win-builder results. Do I have the wrong path or is Makevars.win the wrong place to set this?
Thanks,
Gillian Sharer
> On Oct 7, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/10/2016 3:06 PM, Gillian Sharer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to submit a package to win-builder with C code and it won’t compile. I get this result:
>>
>> ar -crs libmseed.a fileutils.o genutils.o gswap.o lmplatform.o lookup.o msrutils.o pack.o packdata.o traceutils.o tracelist.o parseutils.o unpack.o unpackdata.o selection.o logging.o
>> make[1]: ar: Command not found
>> make[1]: *** [libmseed.a] Error 127
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/temp/RtmpUvWmaH/R.INSTALL3e847db06d40/IRISSeismic/src- i386/libmseed'
>> make: *** [libmseed/libmseed.a] Error 2
>> Warning: running command 'make -f "Makevars.win" -f "D:/RCompile/recent/R/etc/i386/Makeconf" -f "D:/RCompile/recent/R/etc/i386/Makevars.site" -f "D:/RCompile/recent/R/share/make/winshlib.mk" SHLIB="IRISSeismic.dll" OBJECTS="parseMiniSEED.o"' had status 2
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘IRISSeismic'
>>
>> It says it can’t find the command ar, which I don’t understand. This was my original Makevars.win file:
>>
>> PKG_CFLAGS=
>> PKG_CPPFLAGS=-Ilibmseed
>> PKG_LIBS=-Llibmseed -lmseed
>> $(SHLIB): libmseed/libmseed.a
>> libmseed/libmseed.a:
>> @(cd libmseed && $(MAKE) static CC="$(CC)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)”)
>> clean:
>> @(cd libmseed && $(MAKE) clean)
>>
>> and I also tried it using the following with the same results:
>>
>> libmseed/libmseed.a:
>> @(cd libmseed && $(MAKE) static CC="$(CC)" CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)” AR="$(AR)")
>>
>> A google search turned up nothing and a stackoverflow question has not had any responses yet. Is there something I’m missing? And is there any other relevant information I can provide? I don’t have much experience compiling C code, but it works on Mac OSX and Linux.
>
> It's just what it said: you don't have ar on your path. Normally the $(AR) variable is set to $(BINPREF)ar. Perhaps you've changed R_HOME/etc/Makeconf so that isn't true, or have overridden BINPREF with a value different from the default.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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