[R] Rcmd SHLIB under NT

[Uwe Ligges]

"Richards, Tom" wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
>         I'm trying to use Rcmd SHLIB to compile a single file, sann.c, to
> get sann.dll.
> I was able to get
> 
> make libR.a
> 
> to work, after going into MkRules and changing the line
> 
> DLLTOOL=$(BINPREF)dlltool -k --as $(AS)
> 
> to read
> 
> DLLTOOL=C:/MINGW-1.1/bin/dlltool -k --as $(AS)

Did you change it in an appropriate editor that does NOT convert Unix
line breaks to Windows line breaks? In any other way you may run into
some problems.


> But now I get:
> 
> C:\rw1051\src\gnuwin32>Rcmd SHLIB sann.c
> 
> make: make: Command not found
> make: *** [libR] Error 127
> 
> My path is as follows:
> 
> C:\rw1051\src\gnuwin32>path
> PATH="C:\Rtools\";C:\Mingw-1.1\bin;C:\Perl\bin;"C:\Rw1051\bin";C:\WINNT\syst
> em32
> ;C:\WINNT;"D:\Program Files\Hummingbird\Connectivity\7.00\Accessories\";


Your path statement MUST NOT end with a ";" or your OS won't find
anything in those paths (at least on WinNT).



> Thus far in my life the only way I've been able to compile C code for R is
> with the commands:
> 
> gcc -O2 -c %FNAME%.c -IC:\Rw1051\src\include -IC:\Mingw-1.1\include
> dlltool --export-all-symbols --output-def %FNAME%.def %FNAME%.o
> gcc -shared -o ..\libs\%FNAME%.dll %FNAME%.def %FNAME%.o
> -LC:/Rw1051/src/gnuwin32 -lR
> 
> Is there some reason that only my computer cannot find make when I try
> SHLIB?  Thanks in advance.


Uwe Ligges
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