[R-pkg-devel] win-builder, compiling C code, make[1]: ar: Command not found

William Dunlap wdunlap at tibco.com
Sat Oct 8 02:45:19 CEST 2016


If you hadn't squelched command line echoing from your makefiles (by
putting the 'at' signs in front of the commands)  you might have discovered
the problem faster.

Bill Dunlap
TIBCO Software
wdunlap tibco.com

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Gillian Sharer <gillian at iris.washington.edu>
wrote:

>
> It’s solved! Changing ‘ar’ to ‘$(AR)’ in the Makefile along with adding
> AR="$(AR)" to @(cd libmseed && $(MAKE) static CC="$(CC)"
> CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)") in the Makevars.win fixed the problem.
>
> Thank you!
> Gillian Sharer
>
> > On Oct 7, 2016, at 3:50 PM, William Dunlap <wdunlap at tibco.com> wrote:
> >
> > Do you have a Makefile in the directory yourPackage/src/libmseed?
> > If so, how does it call 'ar' or '$(AR)'?
> >
> > Bill Dunlap
> > TIBCO Software
> > wdunlap tibco.com
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Gillian Sharer <
> gillian at iris.washington.edu> wrote:
> > 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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