[Rd] Building R on Windows

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote:

> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
> Is there something like config.log for Windows port?

No.  You will need to start again and show us what happens around the boot 
it says it is bootstrapping.


> I didn't see anything suspcicious that helped me in finding where shared 
> library tools should be built.
> There were couple of warning messges related to dlapack, but these are not 
> related to tools, right?
>
> In file included from dlapack0.f:0:
> dlapack0.f:203: warning: 'ipv' might be used uninitialized in this function
> dlapack0.f:203: warning: 'jpv' might be used uninitialized in this function
> dlapack0.f:204: warning: 'smin' might be used uninitialized in this function

You will get many of those.


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