[Rcpp-devel] libRInside.a and "base package"

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 4 September 2012 at 14:48, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| On 3 September 2012 at 23:44, Dan Murphy wrote:
| | I copied the six dll's from C:\R\R-2.15.1\bin\i386 to
| | C:\R\R-2.15.1\library\RInside\examples\standard before running make
| | (just to be sure). Then
| | 
| | make -f makevars.win
| | 
| | ran without error, but
| | 
| | C:\R\R-2.15.1\library\RInside\examples\standard>rinside_sample0
| | 
| | gave the same  "Fatal error: unable to open the base package".
| | 
| | No one else has suggested any solution.
| 
| I think (but I am not windows expert) this hints at a 32 bit / 64 bit mismatch.
|  
| | Thinking the error was probably thrown in Rcpp, I thought maybe I
| | should try building Rcpp from source, so I downloaded the latest
| | package and ran
| | R CMD INSTALL --build rcpp_0.9.13.tar.gz
| | 
| | but that did not eliminate the fatal error. I'm out of ideas.
| 
| It stumped me too today. I didn't have too much time for this but here is
| quick run-down
| 
|   i)    I think RInside_0.2.7.zip as shipped for Windows is in fact deficient
|         in the sense that it should have, but doesn't have, a static library
| 	for 64 bit use.
| 
|   ii)   So I rebuilt RInside_0.2.7 locally from the .tar.gz, opting for 
|         the --no-multiarch flag to ensure I get a 64 bit build.
| 
|   iii)  I then noticed that using Makefile.win results in an incomplete /
|         wrong call for libRinside.a.  As a stop-gap measure, I fixed this via
|            RINSIDELIBS=../../lib/x64/libRInside.a

PS  I also set   R_ARCH := --arch x64    by uncommenting that entry.

Dirk

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|   iv)   With those changes / fixes, 'make -f Makefile.win' works and results
|         in working executables.  I didn't have to copy any dlls into the
|         working directory.
| 
| I hope to make some time over the next few weeks to address i) and iii).
| Help from experienced Windows users would certainly be appreciated :)
| 
| Dirk
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| Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com  

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