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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have to work under Windows, it’s a company policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Now, going to PATH, the location info to make Rtools is:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW64\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>If from this list I remove the reference to the compiler <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>then ADMB works again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Ruben<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>Dr. Ruben H. Roa-Ureta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>Senior Researcher, AZTI Tecnalia,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>Marine Research Division,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>Txatxar</span><span lang=ES-TRAD style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>ramendi Ugartea z/g, 48395, Sukarrieta,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=ES-TRAD style='mso-fareast-language:ES'>Bizkaia, Spain<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>