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[Bioc-devel] linking stage excessive runtime issue on windows (was: New package submission)

Hi Thomas,?

mzR has been in stormy waters since the new Windows toolchain?
was used. While now all compile errors are gone:
http://bioconductor.org/checkResults/devel/bioc-LATEST/mzR/

The build still timeouts on windows, because for reasons completely?
unknown to me the linking step into mzR.dll takes a whopping 20 minutes
on windows, and that twice to create the mzR.dll for both i386 and x64.

It is somehow an issue in the mingw compiler. We even tried?
an alternative linker (see issue threads linked below).
I don't know if this could be helped with CFLAGS/LDFLAGS.

=> If there is anyone who knows why and if there is any way?
? ?to speed this up, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
? ?This has been a pain for a long time, and I am sorry?
? ?for the turbulences caused.

Yours,
Steffen

We track this issue here:
https://github.com/sneumann/mzR/issues/21#issuecomment-87801932
On Do, 2016-04-21 at 14:37 +0100, Thomas Lawson wrote: