[R-pkg-devel] Windows load error installing package SOLVED - additional note

[Uwe Ligges]

On 13.06.2021 12:49, J C Nash wrote:
> Thanks Uwe.

You are welcome.


> My misunderstanding. I thought the reference was to one of the
> "src/" directories in the base R tree. However, I found examples in
> some packages for the location.
> 
> Windows is alien territory for me, unfortunately.

I see. Note the Makevars file for non Windows OS should be in the same 
place.

Best,
Uwe

> 
> JN
> 
> 
> On 2021-06-12 7:27 p.m., Uwe Ligges wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 12.06.2021 16:39, J C Nash wrote:
>>> Two minor notes:
>>>
>>> 1) The Writing R Extensions manual, as far as I can determine, does not inform package
>>> developers that Makevars.win needs to be in the src/ subdirectory. I followed the example
>>> of some other packages to choose where to put it.
>>
>> I just searched for Makevars.win in Writing R Extensions and the first occurence is:
>> "There are platform-specific file names on Windows: src/Makevars.win"
>>
>> So tells you both it should be in src and how to capitlize.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 2) Also, while I managed to get my package to install with "makevars.win", I got a
>>> WARNING on running a CHECK until I replaced it with "Makevars.win", i.e., Camel-case
>>> name.
>>>
>>> Do these observations merit edits in the manual?
>>>
>>> JN
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2021-06-11 11:16 a.m., J C Nash wrote:
>>>> After some flailing around, discovered a posting
>>>>
>>>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42118561/error-in-r-cmd-shlib-compiling-c-code
>>>>
>>>> which showed a makevars.win file containing
>>>>
>>>> PKG_LIBS = $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS)
>>>>
>>>> I had tried several similar such makevars.win files, but trying PKG_LIBS+= and
>>>> no spaces. There is mention of the libraries in Writing R Extensions, but given
>>>> the heavy use of LAPACK, BLAS and FLIBS, perhaps this example should be there
>>>> in the documentation. I've separately noted that Linux sessionInfo() shows
>>>> BLAS and LAPACK but Windows does not.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers, JN
>>>>
>>>
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