[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp on R 2.12.0 / windows / gcc 4.5

[Romain Francois]

Hello,

I spent some of my time this morning tweaking Rcpp so that it builds and 
checks on the R 2.12.0 alpha (the latest snapshot) on windows with the 
latest Rtools on both archs.

It appears to work fine at the latest svn revision (rev 2259).

I've sent it to the R-devel branch of win builder and posted a tarball 
here: http://addictedtor.free.fr/misc/rcpp/Rcpp_0.8.6.3.tar.gz
I'd appreciate if other people would also try it, I'm always a bit 
insecure when it comes to windows.

Our aim is to synchronize release of Rcpp 0.8.7 with the release of R 2.12.0


Issues were:
- the hello function in the module that is part of the testRcppmodule 
package:

std::string hello() {
	throw std::range_error( "boom" ) ;
}

This makes windows (or gcc 4.5, or something else) unhappy. This is 
probably an issue with throw declarations, exceptions accross 
translation unites, etc ... as we have seen before. For now, I commented 
it out. This is low priority.

- fast indexing, i.e. as provided by the Rcpp::Fast class makes windows 
unhappy, so I am only using Fast on other platforms. See the #ifndef 
WIN32 in the Extractor.h file. This seems like a good enough workaround 
for now. People who want faster indexing on windows are welcome to 
submit a (((tested))) patch. Note that this is possible that the newer 
compiler produces better code, so the need for the Rcpp::Fast trick 
might not be needed at all.

Romain

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