R help - Nov 2012 - Looking for mingw32-make.exe (make.exe not working) in RTools

Hi,

I am using premake4 generated make files to compile my projects, which
works fine if I am using mingw32-make.exe from the MinGW 32 bit
distribution, but doesn't work with the make.exe supplied by the latest
RTools 2.16.

That make.exe first complains it can't create directories and then that it
has "no rule".

So how comes there is no mingw32-make.exe along with RTools?

I installed MinGW separately, in which case everything compiles fine with
the provided mingw32-make.exe, but I am using a different version to
RTools, so I am hesitant mixing the two, and also it doesn't support 64 bit.

I have been looking a bit into MinGW 64 bit but that looks a bit more
cumbersome (no straight forward installer, different versions, maybe
compiling from source, problems linking to windows dlls, ...), so I went
back to trying RTools as these nicely enough have both 32 and 64 bit
support (and work with my R distro), but sadly don't have
a mingw32-make.exe I could use.

Could someone please shed a bit of light on this?

Thank you,
Florian

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Hi again,

I am still struggling with this unfortunately.

I installed 64 bit MinGW (rubenvb's personal build) and managed to fully
compile boost (static libraries) and my library (shared library), after a
fair amount of pain. I can now even load my library with dyn.load. However,
I can't call my functions ("C symbol name "xxx" not in load
table").

I tried to reproduce what "Rcpp" and "inline" do in terms of
compiling, and
I even looked into a such generated DLL with getDLLRegisteredRoutines, as I
was worried that my library didn't have any registered routines, but
neither do the "inline" generated DLLs have registered routines.

So I am a bit stuck - I am aware that I diverged from the Rtools build, but
unfortunately I haven't gotten very far with those. Mainly I get stuck on
the missing mingw32-make.exe.

Any ideas how I should move forward? Is my problem different compiler
versions? Does mingw32-make.exe not work with R?

Please note that all my code works just fine on linux, e.g. function
declarations are exported with RcppExport (which is basically just a macro
to Extern "C") and such.

Thanks,
Florian

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