OpenMP problem with 64-bit Rtools
Hi Radford
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Radford Neal <radford at cs.toronto.edu> wrote:
I've been getting pqR to work on windows systems, and in the process have discovered various problems with R core versions of R and with Rtools.
We happen to be working on a new version of the windows tool chain, perhaps you are interested to test if problems still exist in the latest versions. Find a copy of gcc-4.9.2 as well as an installer with the latest r-devel built with this compiler here: http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~jeroen/mingw-w64/. Note that this R installer contains a copy of the tool chain (hence requires no seperate 'rtools' installation).
The reason for this appears to be that the omp.h file included is appropriate only for the 32-bit version of the openMP library. As far as I can see, there is no 64-bit version of this include file in the stuff installed with Rtools.
This particular behavior exists in all builds of mingw-w64, not rtools per se. We might get a better answer in the mingw-w64-public mailing list.