R devel - Aug 2008 - [Bioc-devel] EBImage: Devel version on Windows not building

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Laurent Gautier <lgautier@gmail.com>
wrote:
> There is a chance that further changes in the handling of plotting
> devices event appear;
> I think that there is an ongoing effort to bring new features for R-2.8.
>
> What about bumping that to r-devel ? (Sorry if you already did and I missed
> it).
> The solution you came up with could be of general use, and could
> somehow be included into R-devel
> (either as functions, macros, or as instructions in R-exts).
>
Well a better solution would be an abstraction around the event loop
handling, so that package code is the same across platforms. I understand
that's a non-trivial task.

Michael

>
>
> L.
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> 2008/8/13 Michael Lawrence <mflawren@fhcrc.org>:
> > This is almost certainly due to the lack of tcl_do in R devel. I fixed
> this
> > in RGtk2 by using multiple threads and synchronizing on the Windows
event
> > loop. If the maintainer wants an example of how to do this, he can
check
> out
> > RGtk2. I will upload the new version to CRAN today.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Henrik Bengtsson
<hb@stat.berkeley.edu
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> thanks for fixing the DESCRIPTION file for EBImage.  FYI, the
Windows
> >> version does not build:
> >>
> >> * creating vignettes ... ERROR
> >> Error in inDL(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now), ...) :
> >>  unable to load shared library
> >>
>
'D:/biocbld/bbs-2.3-bioc/tmpdir/Rinst415629052/EBImage/libs/EBImage.dll':
> >>  LoadLibrary failure:  The specified procedure could not be found.
> >>
> >> Error: processing vignette 'AnalysisWithEBImage.Rnw'
failed with
> >> diagnostics:
> >>  chunk 1 (label=loadlib)
> >> Error : package/namespace load failed for 'EBImage'
> >> Execution halted
> >>
> >> More:
> >>
>
http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/2.3/bioc-LATEST/EBImage/gewurz-buildsrc.html
> >>
> >> I noticed this already a few weeks ago (before the typo in
DESCRIPTION
> >> was added) and hoped it would solve "itself", but it is
still there.
> >> Not sure if it is an EBImage or a BioC server config problem.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Henrik
> >>
> >> PS. I can solve all these problems for myself, but I reporting it
for
> >> the sake of automatic installation etc. DS.
> >>
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