INSTALL.windows

This file describes how to install nloptr from source for Windows. Compiling nloptr for Windows consists of two steps:
1. configure and compile NLopt from source
       or 
   download and unpack a pre-compiled binary (NLopt-2.4-win-build.zip from http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpjyy/nloptr.html)
2. compile the R interface



*** To install NLopt from source (optional)
Requirements: Cygwin or MSYS

1. Download the latest source of NLopt from http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt#Download_and_installation, e.g. nlopt-2.4.tar.gz and unpack this archive somewhere (e.g. c:/tmp/nlopt-2.4).

2. Create a bash script somewhere, e.g. c:/tmp/NLoptInstall.sh with the following contents
#!/bin/bash

R_HOME="C:/tools/R/R-3.0.2"
R_ARCH="i386"

NLOPT_SRC_DIR="C:/tmp/nlopt-2.4"
NLOPT_LIB_DIR="C:/tmp/nlopt"

# Create directory for output
mkdir ${NLOPT_LIB_DIR}
mkdir ${NLOPT_LIB_DIR}/${R_ARCH}

# Start in source directory
cd ${NLOPT_SRC_DIR}

# Get R compilers and flags
CC=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CC`
CFLAGS=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CFLAGS`

CPP=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CPP`
CPPFLAGS=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CPPFLAGS`

CXX=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CXX`
CXXFLAGS=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CXXFLAGS`

CXXCPP=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config CXXCPP`

F77=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config F77`
FFLAGS=`"${R_HOME}/bin/${R_ARCH}/R.exe" CMD config FFLAGS`

echo "./configure --prefix=\"${NLOPT_LIB_DIR}/${R_ARCH}\" --disable-shared --enable-static --without-octave --without-matlab --without-guile --without-python --with-cxx CC=\"${CC}\" ADD_CFLAGS=\"${CFLAGS}\" CPP=\"${CPP}\" ADD_CPPFLAGS=\"${CPPFLAGS}\" CXX=\"${CXX}\" ADD_CXXFLAGS=\"${CXXFLAGS}\" CXXCPP=\"${CXXCPP}\" F77=\"${F77}\" ADD_FFLAGS=\"${FFLAGS}\""

# Configure
./configure --prefix="${NLOPT_LIB_DIR}/${R_ARCH}" --disable-shared --enable-static --without-octave --without-matlab --without-guile --without-python --with-cxx CC="${CC}" ADD_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CPP="${CPP}" ADD_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" CXX="${CXX}" ADD_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" CXXCPP="${CXXCPP}" F77="${F77}" ADD_FFLAGS="${FFLAGS}"

# Compile
make
make install

3. In c:/tmp/NLoptInstall.sh adjust the values of the following macros
R_HOME          (The directory where R is located)
NLOPT_SRC_DIR   (The directory where the NLopt source is located, i.e. the directory created in 1.)
NLOPT_LIB_DIR   (The directory where the NLopt binary will be after compilation. This directory is created by the script NLoptInstall.sh)

4. Start MSYS, go to the directory where the script is located and execute the bash script
> cd c:/tmp
> ./NLoptInstall.sh

The bash script sets macros for the correct compilers, as used by R, and configures and compiles the NLopt code. You do not need to use the script to compile NLopt, but it simplifies the process.

5. Optionally compile NLopt for 64-bit. Change the line R_ARCH="i386" to R_ARCH="x64" in c:/tmp/NLoptInstall.sh and execture the script again from MSYS.



*** To install nloptr
Requirements: Rtools

1. Download the source of nloptr (from GitHub https://github.com/jyypma/nloptr or CRAN http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nloptr/index.html) and unpack this somewhere.

2. Before building from the MS-DOS prompt, define an enviroment variable with the location of the NLopt library, e.g.
    set NLOPT_HOME=c:/tmp/nlopt

3. Compile the R interface
    R CMD build nloptr