[Rcpp-devel] Error installing 1.0.13

[Avraham Adler]

Hello, Dirk.

Now that you mention it, ny R is a bit old. I'm running (r-devel of
course) 2024-05-12 r86534 ucrt.

Let me rebuild R from scratch and I'll try again. I'll report back (in
a day or so) if that helped.

Thank you!

Avi

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 7:57 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 24 July 2024 at 19:21, Avraham Adler wrote:
> | I get the following error when trying to install.
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Avi
> |
> | * installing *source* package 'Rcpp' ...
> | ** package 'Rcpp' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> | ** using staged installation
> | ** libs
> | using C++ compiler: 'G__~1.EXE (GCC) 13.2.0'
> | g++ -std=gnu++17  -I"C:/R/RCurrent/R-devel/include" -DNDEBUG
> | -I../inst/include/
> | -I"C:/rtools44/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/include"     -O3
> | -march=native -pipe -mno-rtm -Wa,-muse-unaligned-vector-move -c
> | api.cpp -o api.o
> | g++ -std=gnu++17  -I"C:/R/RCurrent/R-devel/include" -DNDEBUG
> | -I../inst/include/
> | -I"C:/rtools44/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/include"     -O3
> | -march=native -pipe -mno-rtm -Wa,-muse-unaligned-vector-move -c
> | attributes.cpp -o attributes.o
> | g++ -std=gnu++17  -I"C:/R/RCurrent/R-devel/include" -DNDEBUG
> | -I../inst/include/
> | -I"C:/rtools44/x86_64-w64-mingw32.static.posix/include"     -O3
> | -march=native -pipe -mno-rtm -Wa,-muse-unaligned-vector-move -c
> | barrier.cpp -o barrier.o
> | In file included from barrier.cpp:31:
> | barrier.cpp: In function 'SEXPREC** get_vector_ptr(SEXP)':
> | ../inst/include/Rcpp/r/compat.h:34:26: error: 'VECTOR_PTR_RO' was not
> | declared in this scope; did you mean 'VECTOR_PTR'?
> |    34 | # define RCPP_VECTOR_PTR VECTOR_PTR_RO
> |       |                          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | barrier.cpp:74:30: note: in expansion of macro 'RCPP_VECTOR_PTR'
> |    74 |     return const_cast<SEXP*>(RCPP_VECTOR_PTR(x));
> |                                          // #nocov end
> |       |                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | make: *** [C:/R/RCurrent/R-devel/etc/x64/Makeconf:296: barrier.o] Error 1
> | ERROR: compilation failed for package 'Rcpp'
>
> That's not a good outcome and a little odd.
>
> We can see that CRAN has Windows binaries, and, upon upload, of course also
> first checked with default Windows and Linux build servers by Uwe and Kurt.
>
> As for the error, the file compat.h is pretty trivial and just contains a
> version comparison to then define the replacement wrapper. Line 34 _defines_
> a string rather than using. So I am puzzled.  Maybe something
> is off with your R version?  You often run r-devel, don't you?
>
> In any event, if your R is newer than 4.4.2 maybe (for now) replace the
> conditional logic in compat.h with just the defines ie
>
>   # define RCPP_STRING_PTR STRING_PTR_RO
>
>   # define RCPP_VECTOR_PTR VECTOR_PTR_RO
>
> and use that?
>
> Dirk
>
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