Hi, Duncan, I think I can have a try. Upgrading shouldn't be that hard.
But I think I need the source for current version of Rtools, the link[1] on website doesn't work any more. Best wishes, KK [1] http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/sources-tools On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- *Bueno es hablar, pero mejor es callar* [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
