[Rd] wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Wed Jan 10 20:59:45 CET 2007


On 1/10/2007 2:29 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Does anybody (most probably the core team) know if there is
> any difference in how the official 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 binaries are
> built?
> 
> Problem is, 2.4.0 loads with the wine (I tried a few recent
> versions, and also used 2.3.x under wine from time to time),
> but 2.4.1 won't.

Yes, there were changes to the MinGW run-time library between those two 
releases.  See http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/.

If you can be more specific about the problem, it's possible the Wine or 
MinGW people could fix it.

Duncan Murdoch



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