On 31/03/2008 4:59 PM, Pavlidis, Polykarpos wrote:
> This is my first attempt to call a C function from R. I have installed 
> Rtools,MinGW and Perl and I have included them in my system path. I am trying 
> to compile a toy function that can be called in R but when I type "RCMD SHLIB 
> foo.c" I receive the following message in my Command prompt:

Show us your path.  "Including" the tools is not good enough; the order 
matters.  Rtools needs to be first.  (See the instructions that come 
with the Rtools.)

> 
> making foo.d from foo.c
> make: [foo.d] Error 255 (ignored)
> cat: foo.d: No such file or directory
> make: [makeMakedeps] Error 1 (ignored)
> windres --preprocessor = "gcc-sjlj -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED" -I 
> C:/Progra~1/R/R-26~1.2/
> include -i foo_res.rc -o foo_res.o
> c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: unknown format type 'C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-26~1.2/include'
> c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: supported formats: rc res coff

Rtools wouldn't normally put MinGW there.  Are you sure you're using a 
current version?

Duncan Murdoch

> make: ***[foo_res.o] Error 1
> 
> Could someone please help me with what's going wrong? Thank you in advance.
> 
> 
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> Polykarpos Pavlidis
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> University of Rochester
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