From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Thu Apr  2 12:07:28 2009
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:07:28 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Compiler options for Makefile.win
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I fear the number of R users under Windows that make use of a non-gcc 
compiler and is reading this list is quite close to 0. Hence you will 
probably have to find it out yourself.

Uwe Ligges






cstrato wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> For certain reasons I have to compile the source code of my package on 
> Windows XP using Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0, thus I had to create a 
> "Makefile.win". Now I have a question regarding compiler options /MT vs 
> /MD for Makefile.win.
> 
> The following partial output shows that when building my package on 
> Windows XP using "R CMD build --binary xps" with compiler option /MT 
> everything is ok:
> 
> - - - - - - - -
>  running src/Makefile.win ...
> "C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin/cl" /I"C:\root/include" 
> /FIw32p
> ragma.h /MT /EHsc /Ox /D "MSVC" /D "WIN32" /c TStat.cxx
> Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.21022.08 
> for 80x86
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> 
> TStat.cxx
> 
> 
> Created c:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN\xps\chm\xps.chm, 166,304 bytes
> Compression decreased file by 442,728 bytes.
> ** building package indices ...
> ** MD5 sums
> * DONE (xps)
> * creating vignettes ... OK
> * cleaning src
> 
> 
> Created c:\home\Rabbitus\temp\Rbuild210430099\xps\chm\xps.chm, 166,308 
> bytes
> Compression decreased file by 442,724 bytes.
> ** building package indices ...
> ** MD5 sums
> packaged installation of 'xps' as xps_1.3.8.zip
> * DONE (xps)
> - - - - - - - -
> 
> As you see the package was built correctly.
> 
> 
> However, when I change the compiler option in "Makefile.win" to /MD the 
> build stops at the following position:
> 
> - - - - - - - -
> Created c:\home\Rabbitus\CRAN\xps\chm\xps.chm, 166,306 bytes
> Compression decreased file by 442,726 bytes.
> ** building package indices ...
> ** MD5 sums
> * DONE (xps)
> * creating vignettes ...Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)
> - - - - - - - -
> 
> As you see I had to terminate the build process manually after 15 min .
> 
> My question is now:
> Do you know why I can build my package w/o problems when using option 
> /MT but not when using option /MD?
> 
> As a note, I am using "R-2.9.0alpha-win32.exe" which I have downloaded 
> today.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Best regards
> Christian
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[Rd] Compiler options for Makefile.win
Uwe Ligges