[R] Installing rgl in R2.0.1

[Duncan Murdoch]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:10:59 +1300 (NZDT), "Richard A. O'Keefe"
<ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:

>I'm running R2.0.1 under Solaris 2.9 on a SunBlade 100.
>When I installed it, I set things up to use the Sun compilers
>cc, CC, f95 with the options recommended in the installation and
>administration guide.
>
>Until today, no worries.
>
>With all this discussion about R GUIs I thought I'd give R Commander a go.
>The web page said to install a bunch of packages first, so I did
>> install.packages(c("abind", "car", "effects", "lmtest", "multcomp",
>+ "mvtnorm", "relimp", "rgl", "sandwich", "strucchange", "zoo"),
>+ dependencies = TRUE)
>
>Again, all went well up to a certain point.  That point was rgl.
>
>* Installing *source* package 'rgl' ...
>checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.9
>checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.9
>checking for gcc... gcc
>checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>checking for suffix of executables... 
>checking for suffix of object files... o
>checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
>checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
>checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>checking for X... libraries /usr/openwin/lib, headers /usr/openwin/include
>
>checking for libpng-config... yes
>configure: creating ./config.status
>config.status: creating src/Makevars
>** libs
>CC -I/users/local/lib/R/include -I/usr/openwin/include -DHAVE_PNG_H -I/usr/local/include  -Wall -pedantic -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -KPIC  -xO4 -xlibmil -dalign -c x11lib.cpp -o x11lib.o
>CC: Warning: Option -Wall passed to ld, if ld is invoked, ignored otherwise
>CC: Warning: Option -pedantic passed to ld, if ld is invoked, ignored otherwise
>CC: Warning: Option -fno-exceptions passed to ld, if ld is invoked, ignored otherwise
>...
>erwise
>CC: Warning: Option -fno-rtti passed to ld, if ld is invoked, ignored otherwise
>CC -G -L/usr/local/lib -o rgl.so x11lib.o x11gui.o types.o math.o fps.o pixmap.o gui.o api.o device.o devicemanager.o rglview.o scene.o glgui.o -L/usr/openwin/lib -L/users/local/lib -R/users/local/lib -lpng12 -lz -lm -lstdc++ -lX11 -lXext -lGL -lGLU -lpng12 -lz -lm  
>ld: fatal: library -lstdc++: not found
>ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to rgl.so
>*** Error code 1
>make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `rgl.so'
>ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rgl'
>
>Previous packages figured out from whatever information the R installation
>squirrelled away that they should use f95 (not g77) and cc (not gcc) and
>provided sensible options.  However, the rgl installation has decided to
>do its own configuration, and has decided to use gcc.  That would probably
>work, except that it is mixing up the Sun C++ compiler (CC) with the Gnu
>command line options (-Wall -pedantic -fno-exceptions .....) AND the Sun
>command line options (-xO4 -xlibmil -dalign).  
>
>All my attempts to follow the
>http://wsopuppenkiste.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/~dadler/rgl
>link on the rgl catalogue card at CRAN have failed.
>
>- Did I do something wrong?
>- What if anything can I do about it?

I don't think you did anything wrong, but I don't know what you can do
to fix it.  uni-goettingen.de hasn't been responding for a few days.

Duncan Murdoch