[Rd] Building R for windows (was Adding Tk Extensions...)

[James Wettenhall]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Marsland, John wrote:
> Have you tried to make R under MSYS/MinGW, there would seem to be some
> obvious benefits to this over the current collection of Cygwin tools?

Yes I've tried, but the only way I've succeded in building R for 
Windows is by following Brian Ripley's instructions (i.e. using 
the collection you mentioned) :
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/

In MSYS, sh.exe and make.exe seem to behave differently from the 
Rtools versions, causing problems which I don't know how to solve.  

Regards,
James