reading the instructions (was [R] grid)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

Did you read _all_ the instructions?  Search for windres in
src/gnuwin32/INSTALL and you may locate _your_ problem.

Meanwhile, pre-compiled versions are on CRAN.

On Wed, 23 May 2001, Heberto Ghezzo wrote:

> Hello
> I am working on Win98 with R 1.2.3 and gcc 295 mingw32msvc.
> I try to compile grid_0.1.tar.gz with the command
>
> rw1023\bin\Rcmd INSTALL --library=./r_src/library
> ./r_src/src/cran/grid_0.1.tar.gz
>
> from a dos window. It compiled everything but then:
> . . . . . .
> ranlib grid.a
> PERL5LIB=C:/R/RW1023/share/perl perl
> C:/R/RW1023/src/gnuwin32/makeDllRes.pl grid
>  > grid_res.rc
> windres --include-dir C:/R/RW1023/src/include -i grid_res.rc -o
> grid_res.o
>
> and everything stop and the screen became blank (blue) with the
> message
>
> Exception 0E has occurred at 0028:CA2A49D0 in VxD IFSMGR(04)
> this was called from ... VxD VMM(01)
>
> I tried with a simpler program cclust_0.6-6.tar.gz and the same
> error happened.
> The winres.exe in my set has a length of 270.336 bytes. Is there
> another version of winres.exe ? or any idea what is wrong?
> Thanks.
>
> R. Heberto Ghezzo  Ph.D.
> Meakins-Christie Labs
> McGill University
> Montreal - Canada
> heberto at meakins.lan.mcgill.ca
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