compiling glmnet failed in windows

Question

Since the R package glmnet doesn't provide binary for windows, so I have to compile it under my OS win7 64bit. How ever I got this error message:

gfortran -m64 -fdefault-real-8 -ffixed-form  -O2  -mtune=core2 -c  newGLMnet.f90
 -o newGLMnet.o
f951.exe: sorry, unimplemented: 64-bit mode not compiled in
make: *** [newGLMnet.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'glmnet'

I also tried to compile it under windows XP 32bit, but with 'configuration failed for package glmnet' error message.

Has anyone succeed compiling glmnet in Windows?

Answer 1

Trevor Hastie posted this on r-help 12 hours ago:

"We are aware that glmnet_1.7.3 does not pass for windows and are looking into the problem. It has something to do with the gcc compiler being slightly different on windows versus linux/mac platforms. As soon as we have resolved the issue, we will post a new version to CRAN"

Answer 2

On 64bit Windows, instead of the default PATH :

C:\Rtools\MinGW\bin

try :

C:\Rtools\gcc-4.6.3\bin

Then of course, stop and start a new DOS window to pick up the new PATH.

Also see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15221883/403310