[Rd] R from SVN fails to build on win32

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Professor Ripley,

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 
>> You have not told us which version of R you are trying to build.
>> But this looks like a problem with your bintools, as nothing has 
>> changed in that line for a long time.
>>
>> I am using binutils-2.17.50-20060824.  There was an update at the 
>> weekend, and I suspect that is broken because it says
>>
>>    In addition it patches windres to allow use of spaces in filenames,
>>
>> Does altering the Makefile to have -I../include work?
> 
> 
> I am also having no problems with
> 
> [d:/R/svn/trunk/src/gnuwin32]% windres --version
> GNU windres 2.17.50 20070129

You were correct. I updated to binutils-2.17.50-20060824 and the 
compilation is now proceeding without error.

Thank you for the help!

Best,

Jim


> 
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, James MacDonald wrote:
>>
>>> I get the following error when building R from the subversion server as
>>> well as the latest tarball. I am on Windows XP, and I recently updated
>>> my MinGW installation. It's quite possible I am doing something wrong,
>>> but I am not sure what that might be.
>>>
>>> making console.d from console.c
>>> making dataentry.d from dataentry.c
>>> making dynload.d from dynload.c
>>> making edit.d from edit.c
>>> making editor.d from editor.c
>>> making embeddedR.d from embeddedR.c
>>> making extra.d from extra.c
>>> making opt.d from opt.c
>>> making pager.d from pager.c
>>> making preferences.d from preferences.c
>>> making psignal.d from psignal.c
>>> making rhome.d from rhome.c
>>> making rui.d from rui.c
>>> making run.d from run.c
>>> making shext.d from shext.c
>>> making sys-win32.d from sys-win32.c
>>> making system.d from system.c
>>> making dos_glob.d from dos_glob.c
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c console.c -o console.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c dataentry.c -o dataentry.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c dynload.c -o dynload.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c edit.c -o edit.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c editor.c -o editor.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c embeddedR.c -o embeddedR.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD -DLEA_MALLOC -c extra.c -o extra.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c opt.c -o opt.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c pager.c -o pager.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c preferences.c -o preferences.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c psignal.c -o psignal.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c rhome.c -o rhome.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c rui.c -o rui.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c run.c -o run.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c shext.c -o shext.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c sys-win32.c -o sys-win32.o
>>> sys-win32.c: In function `do_system': sys-win32.c:183: warning: `hERR'
>>> might be used uninitialized in this function gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic
>>> -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c system.c
>>> -o system.o
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c dos_glob.c -o dos_glob.o
>>> gcc     -c -o e_pow.o e_pow.S
>>> gcc  -O3 -Wall -pedantic -std=gnu99 -I../include -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>> -DR_DLL_BUILD  -c malloc.c -o malloc.o
>>> windres  -I ../include -i dllversion.rc -o dllversion.o
>>> c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: unknown format type `../include'
>>> c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: supported formats: rc res coff make[3]: ***
>>> [dllversion.o] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** [../../bin/R.dll] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James W. MacDonald, M.S.
>>> Biostatistician
>>> Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
>>> University of Michigan Cancer Center
>>> 1500 E. Medical Center Drive
>>> 7410 CCGC
>>> Ann Arbor MI 48109
>>> 734-647-5623
>>>
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>>
>>
> 


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James W. MacDonald, M.S.
Biostatistician
Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core
University of Michigan Cancer Center
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
7410 CCGC
Ann Arbor MI 48109
734-647-5623


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