[R] Compiling C-code in Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-05-31 12:24 PM, Mike Marchywka wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 11:37:56 -0400
>> From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
>> To: tom.osborn at iinet.net.au
>> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs
>> Subject: Re: [R] Compiling C-code in Windows
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>> On 31/05/2011 7:50 AM, Tom Osborn wrote:
>>> You could use cygwin's cc/gcc, or the Watcom opensource compiler.
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>> Neither of those is supported. Use what the R Admin manual suggests, or
>> you're on your own.
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> I have had fairly good luck with cygwin or mingw but you may need to
> have a few conditionals etc. Not sure what R suggests but cygwin should
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The MinGW compilers are the recommended ones.  If you use Cygwin, you'll 
need to provide the Cygwin DLLs as well, and those may clash with others 
on the user's system, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Duncan Murdoch

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>>> [Watcom used to be a commercial compiler which ceased and has
>>> become an open project].
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>>> But listen to people who've experienced the options. [Not I].
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>>> Cheers, Tom.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Petar Milin
>>> To: R-HELP
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:43 PM
>>> Subject: [R] Compiling C-code in Windows
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>>> Hello ALL!
>>> I am an Linux user (Debian testing i386), with very dusty
>>> Win-experience. Nevertheless, my colleagues and I are making some
>>> package in R, and I built C-routines to speed up things.
>>> I followed instruction how to compile C for R (very useful link:
>>> http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~yizwang/software/maxLinear/noteonR.html,
>>> and links listed there). Everything works like a charm in Linux. I have
>>> *.so and wrapper function from R is doing a right call.
>>> However, I wanted to make *.dll library for Win-users. Now, I used my
>>> colleague's computer with Win XP on it, and with the latest R. In MS-DOS
>>> console, I positioned prompt in 'C;\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\bin\i386\',
>>> and then I run: 'R CMD SHLIB C:\trial.c'. However, nothing happened, no
>>> trial.dll, nothing. Then, I tried with: 'R CMD SHLIB --output=trial.dll
>>> C:\trial.c', but no luck, again.
>>> Please, can anyone help me with this? Can I use: 'R CMD SHLIB
>>> --output=trial.dll C:\trial.c' under Linux, and expecting working DLL?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> PM
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