[Rcpp-devel] Problems running RInside 0.2.5 on Windows with R 2.14.1 and Rtools 21[45]

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Diomidis,

On 2 January 2012 at 19:41, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
| On 02/01/2012 18:52, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 2 January 2012 at 18:33, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
| > | Perhaps I should mention that the examples fail to find R.dll from the R
| > | installation directory, although it is in the command path (Windows can
| > | find it when I type R.dll on the cmd shell command line).
| >
| > That should not happen, and the R example does not matter (as R has its own
| > registry).
| >
| > Maybe you need both bin/ and bin/x64/ (or whatever it is called) in the
| > $PATH.
| 
| I did a methodical investigation on the issue.  This is what I get from 
| rinside_sample0 with various path configurations.
| 
| No path: Missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll
| Add $Rtools\mingGW\bin: Missing R.dll
| Add $R_HOME\bin: Missing R.dll
| Add $R_HOME\bin\i386: Crash
| Change i386 to X64: Application was unable to start correctly
| 
| Include both $R_HOME\bin\i386 and $R_HOME\bin\X64 in the path: Crash
| Compile from source in $RSRC
| Add $RSRC\bin: Missing R.dll
| Append $RSRC\bin\i386: Crash
| 
| Change to a directory where the binary package DLLs were copied: Crash
| Change to a directory where the compiled DLLs were copied: Crash

Yikes.  Looks like we need to look more closely at the 64-bit case.  I will
have to get myself access to a 64 bit windows machine with Rtools.
 
| Use $R_HOME\bin;$R_HOME\bin\i386 path and unset R_HOME: Fatal error: 
| unable to open the base package

That may be borderline / a configuration error as R needs R_HOME.

Dirk 

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