[Rd] Building R on Windows
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu Oct 13 14:44:58 CEST 2005
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote:
> Hi,
> I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions
> cited here,
> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ to build R-2.2.0.
> Everything works fine up till when package base needs to be compiled.
> here is the error message,
>
> ---------- Making package base ------------
> adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
> shared library 'tools' not found
> Execution halted
> make[4]: *** [frontmatter] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [pkg-base] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Has anyone seen this error message before? Where can I find shared
> library tools?
It was built at the bootstrapping phase, or should have been.
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