[Rcpp-devel] [Rd] Toolchains for x64 Windows

[Romain Francois]

Hello,

I'm just reposting this on the Rcpp mailing list in case people 
following Rcpp-devel don't follow R-devel.

Romain

Le 26/07/10 08:58, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :
>
> The MinGW-w64 project, whose toolchains we use for 64-bit Windows, have
> made some changes to their conventions *and* removed all the older
> binary builds from their site. The current toolchains are not suitable
> for use with R 2.11.x, and I've re-packaged an older version (which is)
> as http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/oldWin64toolchain.zip
>
> The most critical change is to no longer have an additional leading
> underscore on symbols, and we will adopt that convention for R 2.12.0.
> R-devel is now set up by default to use it: if you have been building
> R-devel with an older toolchain you will need to start afresh with the
> new one, a snapshot of which is at
> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/Win64No_toolchain.zip
>
> The currently recommended tools are (as ever) documented in the R-admin
> manual for the version of R you use.
>
> Static and import libraries (but fortunately not DLLs) are incompatible
> across these changes. Only a very few binary packages (e.g. Rcpp [*])
> contain these, but quite a few are built using import libraries for
> external software, and either need the import libraries recompiled or to
> be converted to link directly to DLLs. (These include RCurl RGtk2
> cairoDevice hdf5 lossDev png rjags.) The libraries we use for CRAN
> packages have all been recompiled: these are available under
>
> old: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64/
> new: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64No_/
>
> Uwe Ligges does not yet have a build service for R-devel on win-builder:
> it is hoped to have such a service within the next month using 32/64-bit
> builds, the 64-bit part using the new toolchain.
>
> Note that the underscore convention is not the only thing which has
> changed: gcc 4.5.x is used (rather than 4.4.4) and there are extensive
> changes to the headers. Some of these also necessitate changes to packages.
>
> [*] This means that if you use Rcpp the advice is to install from
> sources yourself Rcpp and any packages using it if you are using R-devel
> on Windows.
>


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