[ADMB Users] Reporting a conflict between ADMB and Rtools on Windows systems

[Rubén Roa]

Hi,

 

I have to work under Windows, it's a company policy.

 

I've just found that there is a conflict between tools used to build R packages (Rtools) and ADMB due to the need to put Rtools compiler's location in the PATH environmental variable to make Rtools work.

 

On a Windows 7 64bit  with Rtools installed I installed ADMB-IDE latest version and although I could translate ADMB code to cpp code I could not build the cpp code into an executable via ADMB-IDE's compiler.

 

On another Windows machine, a Windows Vista 32bits with Rtools installed I also installed the latest ADMB-IDE and this time it was not possible to create the .obj file on the way to build the executable when building with ADMB-IDE. On this machine I also have a previous ADMB version (6.0.1) that I used to run from the DOS shell. This ADMB also failed to build the .obj file.

 

Now, going to PATH, the location info to make Rtools is:

c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW64\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin;

If from this list I remove the reference to the compiler 

c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin

then ADMB works again.

 

So beware of this conflict. Suggestion of a solution will be appreciated. Meanwhile, I run ADMB code in one computer and build R packages with Rtools in another computer.

 

Best

 

Ruben

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Dr. Ruben H. Roa-Ureta

Senior Researcher, AZTI Tecnalia,

Marine Research Division,

Txatxarramendi Ugartea z/g, 48395, Sukarrieta,

Bizkaia, Spain

 

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