On 05/10/2014, 6:20 AM, Jeroen Ooms wrote: > I started working on some R bindings for mongo-c-driver [1]. The C > library compiles fine on Ubuntu Trusty (gcc 4.8.2) and osx (clang), > however on my windows machine (gcc 4.6.3 from Rtools 3.1) it fails > with: 'INIT_ONCE_STATIC_INIT' undeclared. Google suggests that this > might be a problem in older versions of mingw-w64. So I grabbed a copy > of mingw-w64 version 4.8.3 and indeed, here the library compiles > without errors. > > Now I am unsure how to make mingw 4.8.3 work with Rtools. I extracted > the contents of [2] into "C:\RBuildTools\3.1\gcc-4.8.3\" and my > package Makevars contains > > CC = "c:/RBuildTools/3.1/gcc-4.8.3/bin/gcc" > > However it seems like R still uses the old gcc 4.6.3 for R CMD > INSTALL. What am I doing wrong? Is there a recommended setup for > building packages on Windows using a Rtools but with another compiler?
No, but I'd like to update Rtools to use the new compiler. Have you got some time to help with that? Duncan Murdoch > > In addition: will I be able to publish this package to CRAN, or do I > have to wait for Rtools to get updated with a more recent gcc? > > > [1] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver > [2] > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/4.8.3/threads-posix/dwarf/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
