Hello R developers, I sincerely apologize if the answer to this question is clearly documented somewhere, but I was unable to figure it out over my morning coffee. I just downloaded today's release of R 2.11.0 and installed it on my Windows 7 64 bit VM. I also downloaded the latest version of Rtools211 from Professor Murdoch's site. The first thing I attempted to do was build some of my packages from source to check that they work with the new version. I got the following error message: making DLL ... x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-211~1.0-X/include" -O2 -Wall -std=gnu99 -c tikzDevice.c -o tikzDevice.o x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc: not found This does not surprise me, R 2.11.0 is hot out of the forge and Rtools probably hasn't been repacked to support the 64 bit version. I gathered from the Windows FAQ and the list archives that the MinGW-w64 project supplies the compilers and linkers used by the 64 bit version- I visited their site and found the selection of packages available for download... confusing. I guess what I'm asking: * Do I use the Cygwin binaries? * If not, is there an officially "blessed" binary distribution of Windows x86_64 compilers and binutils? * If not, do I build the x86_64 toolchain from the current HEAD, or is there a specific revision that has been determined to be stable? Thanks for your time and effort on maintaining and enhancing such a wonderful language! -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Rtools-for-building-64-bit-windows-packages-tp2021034p2021034.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 22/04/2010 3:04 PM, Sharpie wrote:> Hello R developers, > > I sincerely apologize if the answer to this question is clearly documented > somewhere, but I was unable to figure it out over my morning coffee. > > I just downloaded today's release of R 2.11.0 and installed it on my Windows > 7 64 bit VM. I also downloaded the latest version of Rtools211 from > Professor Murdoch's site. The first thing I attempted to do was build some > of my packages from source to check that they work with the new version. I > got the following error message: > > making DLL ... > x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -I"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-211~1.0-X/include" -O2 > -Wall -std=gnu99 -c tikzDevice.c -o tikzDevice.o > x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc: not found > > This does not surprise me, R 2.11.0 is hot out of the forge and Rtools > probably hasn't been repacked to support the 64 bit version. I gathered > from the Windows FAQ and the list archives that the MinGW-w64 project > supplies the compilers and linkers used by the 64 bit version- I visited > their site and found the selection of packages available for download... > confusing. > > I guess what I'm asking: > > * Do I use the Cygwin binaries? >You can use the Rtools for the stuff other than the compilers. You need the MinGW 64 bit versions of the compilers; they are not nicely packaged yet, but the instructions for finding them are in the new version of the R-admin manual, in the section 3.3, "Building R for 64 bit Windows". Duncan Murdoch> * If not, is there an officially "blessed" binary distribution of Windows > x86_64 compilers and binutils? > > * If not, do I build the x86_64 toolchain from the current HEAD, or is > there a specific revision that has been determined to be stable? > > > Thanks for your time and effort on maintaining and enhancing such a > wonderful language! > > -Charlie > > ----- > Charlie Sharpsteen > Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering > Humboldt State University >
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