[Rd] undefined type 'struct tms' when compiling for MinGW

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think you are somehow running in MSYS (also not part of the 
instructions) and so have a different Perl earlier in your path.

There's a comment in those instructions about

 	This section contains a lot of prescriptive comments.  They are
 	here as a result of bitter experience.

and you are finding that out the hard way.

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Mike Leahy wrote:

>
> Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Mike Leahy wrote:
>>
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> Out of interest, I've been trying to compile R on WinXP with MinGW/MSYS.
>>> I've been following the instructions for compiling R on windows as
>>> closely as possible.  Below is my configure statement, which seems to
>>> work okay except that no browser or pdf viewer is found, and html docs
>>
>> But those instructions do not tell you to run configure!
>>
>
> This is an important detail that I overlooked...
>
>>> will not be compiled...  I've tried enabling/disabling many different
>>> options, and I also add to hack some files to include psignal.h and
>>> run.h using absolute path references.  At any rate, I will invariably
>>> get the errors below with R-2.2.1 and R-rc (from R-latest.tar.gz
>>> downloaded a few hours ago).  It seems that it is looking for times.h
>>> which doesn't exist in the MinGW setup - but should it even be building
>>> anything from the src/unix folder?  I figure I must be missing some key
>>> configuration or step in the windows build instructions...
>>
>> I think you are missing the instructions, period.  There is a separate
>> chapter in the R-admin manual about building for Windows.
>>
>
> This is essentially true...I had been reading those instructions, in
> addition to those by Prof. Ripley / Duncan Murdoch.  However, after you
> pointed out my first mistake above, I reread the instructions and found
> I had skipped over a big chunk.  It seems to be compiling the core
> itself now - thanks for the pointer.
>
> Unfortunately, I have run into a new snag...if I set 'HELP = YES' in
> MkRules, I get the following output from the build:
>
> writing help indices for package: baseCan't locate R/Rdconv.pm in @INC
> (@INC contains: C /msys/src/R-2.2.1/share/perl /usr/li
> b/perl5/5.6.1/msys /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/msys /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
> /usr/lib/perl5/sit
> e_perl .) at ../../../share/perl/build-help-windows.pl line 23.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> ../../../share/perl/build-help-windows.pl line 23.
> make[2]: *** [index-base] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rpackageindices] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I have the latest ActiveState windows port of perl installed in c:\perl,
> which is v5.8.8, and I have no idea why this '@INC' parameter is
> pointing to a version of perl (5.6.1) that doesn't even exist in my msys
> installation.  I looked for any obvious settings in MkRules and didn't
> have any luck.  My PATH points to the ActiveState installation of
> perl...I'm not sure what else can be changed here.  Any ideas for this?
>
> Thanks again for any help,
> Mike
>
>

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