[Rd] [R] build R with Visual Studio

[Jennifer Lai]

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jennifer Lai wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    Has anyone had success in building R source with Visual Studio?  I
>> followed the instructions in README.packages, but failed on the very
>> first step, where it's looking for R.dll. I looked through R source and
>> couldn't find the file. Can someone point me to where this file is
>> located or generated? Thanks!
>
>
> R.dll is the main file generated, and the first step is to build 
> Rpwd.exe.
> Do you really mean the R source?

Yes, I would like to build the entire R source using Visual Studio 
instead of MinGW.  Visual Studio seems the only way to build a 64-bit R 
currently. However, to go get there, I thought I'll try building a 
32-bit version first.

Regards,
Jennifer

>
> People have built R for Windows with Visual Studio (using their own 
> projects/makefiles and other tools to generate .def files) but it did 
> not work correctly.  It seems that the IEC60559 (aka IEEE754) 
> compliance of VC++ was not adequate -- as I recall it thought -Inf > 3.
>
> This isn't the list for such programming questions: R-devel would be 
> more appropriate.
>