[R-SIG-Mac] building 32-bit version of R 3.x

[Simon Urbanek]

On Mar 3, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable at gmail.com> wrote:

> So in what sense is R on Mac OSX now supported as only 64-bit for 3.0
> and after?  BTW, for the freshly built R32, I'm getting
> 
> [126] $ /opt/R/R32/R.framework/R
>                                  zsh: exec format error:
> /opt/R/R32/R.framework/R
> 

What is that? That's neither the proper place for a framework nor the correct build. Are you trying to run the framework library as opposed to the R binary?

If you do

make && make install

then the framework will be in 

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework

and the R start script in

/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/R

You should not need to set anything else.

Cheers,
Simon




> setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/R/R32/R.framework/Libraries doesn't help.
> 
> A+
> 
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Simon Urbanek
> <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
>> On Mar 3, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Alexy Khrabrov <deliverable at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> They are both installed into the same "fat" framework. Everything is shared (i.e. files exist only once) except for the .so objects and some configurations that are in separate subdirectories based on the r_arch setting. OS X supports multiple architectures in one binary, that's why you don't need to modify any paths. OS X was running several architectures in parallel for a long time (first PPC+Intel then ppc+ppc64+i386+x86_64) so it "just works". The only thing to remember is that when you are compiling 3rd party dependencies, you must compile them "fat" for both architectures as well (or use lipo to combine them).
>>> 
>>> Great -- so how should I configure R build to do that?  Obviously the
>>> above builds only one.
>>> 
>> 
>> You always build one, but they both install into one merged framework. You choose which to invoke by setting the --arch parameter, e.g. R --arch=x86_64 to run the 64-bit version. The default will be whichever you install last.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> 
>