[R-pkg-devel] Package Load fails to find 3rd Party DLL

[Russell Almond]

Not sure if I reported the success here or not.

Copying the 3rd party DLL, but not the .lib file, to the src directory 
does work around the bug in the linker.

The complete working solution can be seen at 
https://github.com/ralmond/RNetica.

Thanks for the help.
	--Russell


On 7/17/23 5:30 AM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> В Fri, 14 Jul 2023 22:25:51 +0300
> Ivan Krylov <krylov.r00t using gmail.com> пишет:
> 
>> Maybe it's a red herring. Maybe the message from nm about missing file
>> has always been harmless, and what we're seeing here is a bug in the
>> toolchain; perhaps ld.exe doesn't like something about Netica.lib so
>> much that it crashes. I think that's less likely. If you run the
>> commands manually but without mentioning NeticaDLL, do you get a DLL
>> in the end?
> 
> Judging by your build logs, this could be a toolchain bug. If you set
> the *.lib file aside and only give the *.dll to the linker (using
> -l:Netica.dll if necessary), does it still fail? I know that GCC can
> link directly to *.dll files, without relying on import libraries.
>