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

[Romain Francois]

Hmm. This failed on win builder.

> Dear package maintainer,
>
> this notification has been generated automatically.
> Your package Rcpp_0.8.6.3.tar.gz has been built (if working) and checked for Windows.
> Please check the log files and (if working) the binary package at:
> http://win-builder.r-project.org/7zee4m5kHIjB
> The files will be removed after roughly 72 hours.
> Installation time in seconds: 87
> Check time in seconds: 2385
> Check result: ERROR
> R version 2.12.0 alpha (2010-09-27 r53048) (32+64-bit)

I initially tested it with

$ Rscript --arch 64 -e "Rcpp:::test()"

which worked fine.

R CMD check gives me the same failures as win builder... more work 
required then :-(


Le 30/09/10 13:45, Romain Francois a écrit :
> 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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