[Rd] make pkg on windows NT

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to compile a package i am developing on my home computer where
> i am running Windows NT 4.0 service pack 6. Everything works fine on my
> other computer at work running windows 98.
> 
> I am using the cygwin 1.1 bash shell and tolls with the MingW compiler,
> version 2.95.2-1
> installed seperately and first in the path. I have active perl 6.16 
> as well. Here is the error I get when i run the make pkg-  script from the
> gnuwin32 directory
> 
> bash-2.03$ make DEBUG=T pkg-maptools
> make DLLNM=  EXTRADOCS= \
>   -C c:/Rnew/rw1010/src/library/maptools PKG=maptools RHOME=c:/Rnew/rw1010
> RLIB=
> c:/Rnew/rw1010/library \
>   -f c:/Rnew/rw1010/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg
> make[1]: Entering directory `c:/Rnew/rw1010/src/library/maptools'
> Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
> make[1]: *** [c:/Rnew/rw1010/library/maptools/zzzz] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/Rnew/rw1010/src/library/maptools'
> make: *** [pkg-maptools] Error 2

That means that you have the wrong make and/or the wrong sh.  You need the
set in the tools distribution: certain Cygwin ones work but most do not. We
find it very frustrating too.


> Oh and one last Question, I noted on Dr. Ripley's RTools page that he
> recommends MingW 2.95.2-1 the crtdll version rather than the msvrt
> version. I have not noticed any problems yet with other stuff i have
> compiled, are there any problems dynamically linking code built with the
> other version that I am unaware Of?

Yes. It won't work on many Windows 95 machines, as that page says.
If that is not an issue for you, by all means use the msvcrt version.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
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