[R] Building Rgui.exe with Visual Studio

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It's a long time since anyone has reported trying to build R with VC++6.
It has been done, *but* it fails make check because of problems with the
handling of floating point numbers (e.g. it reported 3 < Inf as false, as I
recall).

It would have taken far less than 4 hours to set up and build using the
documented procedures and tools.  In any case, it is unnecessary to build
RGui to add custom menus, as the supplied package windlg shows.  And there
are instructions in the sources on how to build such packages with VC++6.


On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Neil Osborne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have downloaded and modified the source for rgui - because I wanted to add
> a few more custom menus to the GUI. I have almost got it completed, but have
> spent the last four hours trying to resolve the following issues (no pun
> intended !)
>
>
>
> Linking...
> R.lib(R.dll) : error LNK2005: _WatchCursor already defined in cursors.obj
> R.lib(R.dll) : error LNK2005: _ArrowCursor already defined in cursors.obj
> R.lib(R.dll) : error LNK2005: _R_Interactive already defined in main.obj
>
>
> I have tried just about everything I can think of (including the obvious
> commenting out the declspec dllimport statements in cursors.c) - to no
> avail. Actually that works but it's a desperate hack and causes the app to
> crash later on!
>
> I've run out of ideas and I would appreciate a new set of eyes looking at
> this to see what I'm obviously doing wrong.
>
>
> PS: I am compiling with MSDev Studio 6, OS  is Win2k
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Redhat Hacker
>
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