R-beta: windows and dynload.

Troels Ring tring at mail1.stofanet.dk
Sat Sep 19 10:33:06 CEST 1998


Thank you for that essential information. How is it with windows98 - has anyone
tried ?
Troels

Prof Brian D Ripley skrev:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Troels Ring wrote:
>
> > I get an error:
> > Error in dyn.load(file) : unable to load shared library
> > "D:\R_CODA\RW0613\library\eda\libs\eda.dll"
> > with almost all the packages. I tried to use "require" and tried also to
> > copy the dll's to the bin directory and nothing helped.
> > Any ideas ?
>
> This happens on certain Windows 95 machines (at least); Guido Masarotto and
> I traced it to machines running Windows 95a (that is the original W95 with
> service pack 1); machines running Windows 95b or c (OSR2 and OSR2.5) are
> able to dyn.load.  We thought compiling under a later compiler (egcs 1.1)
> might help, but it does not (report to Guido: I tried this last week).
>
> The good news is that cross-compiling from Linux does seem to work: the
> version Guido announced on R-announce yesterday of 0.62.3 does allow
> dyn.load on the machines here that had problems with rw0613, and since it
> has a much faster interface (and IMHO nicer interface) and is the current
> 0.62.3, I suggest you try that instead. It does have fewer libraries as
> yet, but since you cannot use them with rw0613, that is no disadvantage.
>
> Bravo to Guido for his work on this!  I am sure Guido will appreciate
> reports, both positive and negative, on this new version.  One comment
> from me: is it possible to change the font in the commands window, as the
> default looks ugly on my machine? Did I miss something?
>
> --
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