[Rcpp-devel] RInside and MinGW (Windows)

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 November 2017 at 14:28, Jose wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I am trying to build an application that uses RInside on Windows
| and I get linking problems (undefined references to RInside).
| The application builds and links fine on Linux and MAC.
| 
| I tried to link against both libRinside.a and libRinside.dll. The linking
| paths are correct and I am also linking against R, blas and lapack (DLLs
| though).
| In my installation of R 3.4 in Windows I only see DLLs for R, blas and
| lapack.
| Am I supposed to build R myself so to obtain the .lib or .a files?
| 
| I use CMake and I used the examples on the RInside repository as a
| reference.
| I am trying to build it with MinGW32 (Windows 10).
| 
| Has anybody used RInside in Windows? Am I missing something? Thanks for the
| help.

Yes of course. See the CRAN checks.

The key point, of course, is that _you need Rtools_ and not any random MinGW
compiler you may have.  Sort your ${PATH} accordingly and everyhting should work.

Dirk
 
| Best,
| Jose
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