R help - May 2002 - problem installing quadprog

When I try to build/install the quadprog package under R1.50 and NT4
it seems to have trouble finding blas routines. I'm currently using the
generic blas routines, rather than ATLAS or some other tuned implementation:

   > Rcmd INSTALL d:/temp/quadrprog
   ...
   gcc  --shared -s  -o quadprog.dll quadprog.def quadprog.a quadprog_res.o 
-Lc:/a
   pps/rw1050/src/gnuwin32  -lg2c -lR
   quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0x84):util.f: undefined reference to `dscal_'
   quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0xfa):util.f: undefined reference to `daxpy_'
   quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0x188):util.f: undefined reference to `ddot_'
   quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0x21f):util.f: undefined reference to `daxpy_'
   make[2]: *** [quadprog.dll] Error 1

rBlas.dll is present in <RHOME>/bin, but note that there is no
"-L" directive
for that directory. If I add it, the installation completes correctly.

Is there something wrong with my installation, or has the <RHOME>/bin
directory accidentally been left off the library search path?

What's the easiest way for me to fix this, so I don't encounter the same
problem when building other packages? (BTW, this is the first optional 
package I've had trouble with. Everything else has built/installed
correctly).

Thanks in advance,
-jh-

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On Thu, 30 May 2002 john_heumann at agilent.com wrote:
> When I try to build/install the quadprog package under R1.50 and NT4
> it seems to have trouble finding blas routines. I'm currently using the
> generic blas routines, rather than ATLAS or some other tuned
implementation:
Although you do not say, I presume you installed from SetupR.exe rather
than building from the sources yourself?
>    > Rcmd INSTALL d:/temp/quadrprog
>    ...
>    gcc  --shared -s  -o quadprog.dll quadprog.def quadprog.a quadprog_res.o
-Lc:/a
>    pps/rw1050/src/gnuwin32  -lg2c -lR
>    quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0x84):util.f: undefined reference to
`dscal_'
>    quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0xfa):util.f: undefined reference to
`daxpy_'
>    quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0x188):util.f: undefined reference to
`ddot_'
>    quadprog.a(util.o)(.text+0x21f):util.f: undefined reference to
`daxpy_'
>    make[2]: *** [quadprog.dll] Error 1
>
> rBlas.dll is present in <RHOME>/bin, but note that there is no
"-L" directive
> for that directory. If I add it, the installation completes correctly.
>
> Is there something wrong with my installation, or has the <RHOME>/bin
> directory accidentally been left off the library search path?
>
> What's the easiest way for me to fix this, so I don't encounter the
same
> problem when building other packages? (BTW, this is the first optional
> package I've had trouble with. Everything else has built/installed
correctly).
You should not be linking against a DLL but against an import library.
I get

gcc  --shared -s  -o quadprog.dll quadprog.def quadprog.a quadprog_res.o
-Lc:/R/rw1051/src/gnuwin32  -lg2c -lRblas -lR

The best solution is to build R from the sources yourself.  Looks like the
Windows maintainer has not checked that the source packages in the binary
distribution can link against Rblas.

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