[Rd] Error building Tcl: R-patched_2016-07-05

[Avraham Adler]

OK, that makes sense. Perhaps Rtools34 should then say it should be
used for a version later than 3.3.x? Then again, anyone with the
question will probably find this thread.

Thank you,

Avi

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/2016 5:47 PM, Avraham Adler wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to build R under 64bit Windows7. I am using a fresh
>> install of Rtools34 and R-patched_2016-07-05. I am getting the
>> following error:
>>
>> C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/gcc -shared -s -static-libgcc -o tcltk.dll tmp.def
>> init.o
>>  tcltk.o tcltk_win.o ../../../gnuwin32/dllversion.o
>> -L../../../../Tcl/bin64 -ltc
>> l85 -ltk85 -LC:/R/RLocalSoft/lib/x64 -LC:/R/RLocalSoft/lib
>> -L../../../../bin/x64
>>  -lR
>>
>> C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9.3/../../../../x86_64-w6
>> 4-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -ltcl85
>>
>> C:/Rtools/mingw_64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.9.3/../../../../x86_64-w6
>> 4-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -ltk85
>> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> cp: cannot stat 'tcltk.dll': No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> Looking into R64/Tcl/bin64, I see that the versions provided are
>> tcl86.dll and tk86.dll, which probably means that line 85 of
>> R_HOME/src/gnuwin32/fixed/etc/Makeconf needs to be changed from:
>>
>> TCL_VERSION = 85
>>
>> to
>>
>> TCL_VERSION = 86
>
>
> That is the current setting in R-devel, and has been since revision 70701 on
> June 3.  (It is 85 in the 3.3 branch.)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>