[Rd] compiling R under cygwin

[Duncan Murdoch]

Denham Robert wrote:
> For various reasons, it suits our workplace to have a cygwin version of
> R.  I am pretty sure that cygwin is still not a supported environment
> for R, but we have managed to compile R-2.5.1 under cygwin without too
> many dramas.  Our procedure is described below.  We still have a few
> problems compiling libraries without manually changing files from .so to
> .dll, but it seems ok.
>   
I would expect other subtle problems as well, because Cygwin is not a 
normal Unix.  I don't know whether any of these differences matter to R, 
but some things to look out for are:

 - you can't unlink a file while it is open
 - filenames are not case sensitive
 - file permissions have strange defaults (everything is executable)
 - I think the executable format still needs to be Windows format
 - There's no such thing as a ptty
 - You'll probably need X11 for graphics, and will lose support for 
Windows metafile output (wmf)
>  
> I was wondering whether this information is likely to be useful to
> others, and if we should spend any time looking in to ways in which the
> configure/build/install code could be modified to allow a standard
> install.
>   
What is the advantage of building this?  I don't think we want to 
support platforms just for the sake of supporting more platforms, but if 
there's a real need for it, that would be different.

Duncan Murdoch
>  
> Notes on building R under cygwin:
>  
> export FFLAGS=-O3
> export CFLAGS=-O3
> export CXXFLAGS=-O3
> export OBJCFLAGS=-O3
> export FCFLAGS=-O3
> export LDFLAGS='-lblas -lg2c -lintl'
>  
> export R_OSTYPE=unix
>  
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/freeware/R/R-2.5.1 \
> --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh \
> --with-tk-config=/usr/lib/tkConfig.sh \
> --with-blas=-lblas \
> --with-lapack=-llapack \
> --enable-R-shlib
>  
> comment out Win32 in src/include/config.h and set Unix to 1, change .so
> to .dll. change .so to .dll and in Makeconf.
> in src/extra/xdr/rpc/types.h comment out defn of malloc.
>  
> Change .so to .dll in Makefile's
>  
> edit Makeconf and set R_OSTYPE to unix
>  
> make -j2
>  
> when blas doesn't link, re-run command with -lblas -lg2c on end and
> change output to .dll
>  
> edit Rstrptime.c and change wcstod to atof.
>  
> in modules:
> when X11 and internet falls over add -lintl to link line. add -lg2c and
> -lblas to lapack
>  
> comment out library/base/R/library.R lines 47-51 to avoid arch check
> which seems to go wrong!
>  
> make -j2
> make install
>  
> edit  /opt/freeware/R/R-2.5.1/lib/R/etc/Makeconf and add '-lintl -lg2c
> -lblas' to the end of ALL_LIBS
> so the module building works. Change .so to .dll also
> (can't see how to to this for the build tho...)
>  
>
> Our cygwin info is:
>              sysname              release              version 
>      "CYGWIN_NT-5.1" "1.5.20s(0.155/4/2)"  "20060527 19:21:22" 
>
>
>  
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