[Rcpp-devel] Windows gcc toolchain for R 3.2.0

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 18/03/2015 11:33 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 07:55 -0700, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > Is it not considered a "known problem" that C++ libraries linked
> > against by R packages need to be rebuilt with g++ 4.9.2 in order for
> > the R packages to install/load?
>
> This could well be due to incompatible thread models (win32 vs posix).
> See the thread "V8 crashes..." on the Rcpp-devel mailing list. We have
> not yet had a chance to test the gcc 4.9.2 toolchain built with win32
> threads.

I believe the RStudio folks have tried it, and it was not sufficient to 
fix everything; time just ran out for finding what else was wrong.

Duncan Murdoch