I follow Alan Lenarcic's very helpful tutorial on building R package for Windows (XP), which could be found in www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/AlanRPackageTutorial.pdf<http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/stuff_for_blog/AlanRPackageTutorial.pdf>. The package involves a small dll compiled from some very simple C++ codes.
The build process seemed to work smoothly, until i install. Then I got an error saying the C function was not in the load table. This is rather mysterious because I've been able to call this function from R with dyn.load("name.dll"). So the dll is working. The install error says : C:\R-test>R CMD INSTALL --build FirstPack_0.1.tar.gz * installing to library 'c:/R/R-2.12.0/library' * installing *source* package 'FirstPack' ... ** libs cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: c:/R/R-2.12.0/etc/i386/Makeconf Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R/R-2.12.0/etc/i386/Makeconf CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames g++ -I"c:/R/R-2.12.0/include" -O2 -Wall -c XDemo.cpp -o XDemo.o g++ -I"c:/R/R-2.12.0/include" -O2 -Wall -c XDemo_main.cpp -o XDemo_main .o g++ -shared -s -static-libgcc -o FirstPack.dll tmp.def XDemo.o XDemo_main.o -Lc: /R/R-2.12.0/bin/i386 -lR installing to c:/R/R-2.12.0/library/FirstPack/libs/i386 ** R ** data Warning: empty 'data' directory ** preparing package for lazy loading Error in .C("DemoAutoCor", OutVec = as.double(vector("numeric", OutLength)), : C symbol name "DemoAutoCor" not in load table ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'FirstPack' * removing 'c:/R/R-2.12.0/library/FirstPack' Here is how i built the package. I have the directory structure as described in "Writing R Extensions" and I issued the following command in DOS prompt, C:\R-test>R CMD build FirstPack * checking for file 'FirstPack/DESCRIPTION' ... OK * preparing 'FirstPack': * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK * cleaning src cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Warning in readLines(ldpath) : incomplete final line found on 'FirstPack/DESCRIPTION' * checking for LF line-endings in source and make files * checking for empty or unneeded directories WARNING: directory 'FirstPack/data' is empty * building 'FirstPack_0.1.tar.gz' cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/R-test/FirstPack_0.1.tar CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Thanks in advance. H [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.