Hi Avi, Thank-you so much for your help. It took me a long time to figure it out but your suggestion was a great start. The trick in the end was to define the variable LIB_CURL in the Makeconf files to be the same as CURL_PATH. The package source build routine just did not recognise the latter variable, but after inspecting the file `Makevars.win' in the RCurl/src/ directory, I guessed that this variable needed to be set to the location I had copied the curl goodies to. (FMI: curl-7.40.0.zip obtained from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/multilib/).
You're a star Avi! Thanks again. # set to use libcurl USE_LIBCURL = YES # path to parent of libcurl headers CURL_PATH = C:/Apps/R/Rtools/curl7400 LIB_CURL = C:/Apps/R/Rtools/curl7400 # libs: for 32-bit # CURL_LIBS = -lcurl -lrtmp -lssl -lssh2 -lcrypto -lgdi32 -lcrypt32 -lz -lws2_32 -lgdi32 -lcrypt32 -lwldap32 -lwinmm -lidn # libs: for 64-bit CURL_LIBS = -lcurl -lrtmp -lssl -lssh2 -lcrypto -lgdi32 -lcrypt32 -lz -lws2_32 -lgdi32 -lcrypt32 -lwldap32 -lwinmm Cheers, Rowan From: Avraham Adler [mailto:avraham.ad...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 12:11 PM To: Haigh, Rowan Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Trouble installing XML on Windows 7 (64-bit) I always build R from source, so that doesn’t affect me directly. I suggest you copy the lines relating to CURL out of Mkrules.dist, populate them (you’ll need 3 of the 4, 1 depends on 32/64) to your makeconf somewhere like you did for XML. Good luck! Avi On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 1:22 PM Haigh, Rowan <rowan.ha...@dfo-mpo.gc.ca<mailto:rowan.ha...@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>> wrote: Thanks Avi, I wasn't rebuilding R, just getting the existing R-devel to install XML from source. I don't see any Mkrules in the compiled version of R-devel. On a related issue, I now need to install RCurl from source but I have not yet found an obvious way to tell Makeconf how to find the files in `curl-7.40.0.zip' in addition to those in `local323.zip'. These were never issues in previous builds of R-devel. The Windows binary packages from CRAN were usually compatible with R-devel. Cheers, Rowan Tel. (250) 363-8718 -----Original Message----- From: Avraham Adler [mailto:avraham.ad...@gmail.com<mailto:avraham.ad...@gmail.com>] Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 9:48 AM To: Haigh, Rowan; R Package Development Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Trouble installing XML on Windows 7 (64-bit) On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Haigh, Rowan <rowan.ha...@dfo-mpo.gc.ca<mailto:rowan.ha...@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>> wrote: > Hi Duncan, > > Well I finally managed to install XML from source in Windows under R-devel. > Basically it was a clue provided by user wlandau-lilly (last message on > https://github.com/igraph/igraph/issues/915), and discussions between Gábor > and user stewid > (https://github.com/krlmlr-archive/r-portable/issues/3#issuecomment-72928971) > that lead to success. > > 1. Download local323.zip from http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/libs.html ; > > 2. Copy the files in local323.zip/include/libxml2/libxml/ directory to > R-devel/include/libxml/ ; > > 3. Copy entire contents of local323.zip (directories include/ and lib/) to > new directory C:/Apps/R/Rtools/local323/ ; > > 4. Change line 31 of two files `Makeconf' (in C:/Apps/R/Rdev/etc/i386/ and > C:/Apps/R/Rdev/etc/x64/), from `#LOCAL_SOFT' to `LOCAL_SOFT = > C:/Apps/R/Rtools/local323' ; > > 5. In R-devel, issue command `install.packages("XML", type = "source")'. > Sorry I didn't see this earlier. I've been building R from source on Windows for years, although XML is one of the three packages I usually build from binary (the other two being stringi and BH). As per the instructions (which also tell you where to get the extras) [1], you don't need to change MakeConf. You need to copy Mkrules.dist to Mkrules.local and set LOCAL_SOFT to the directory you need and then ensure EXT_LIBS = $(LOCAL_SOFT) is active. And yes, you need to put the extra goodies in RLocalSoft (EXCEPT for Tcl), and that includes Curl and ICU if you want to include that support. Thanks, Avi [1] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Building-from-source -- Sent from Gmail Mobile [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
