[R] Building Rgui.exe with Visual Studio

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Neil Osborne wrote:

> Thanks,
>
> This will save me some time...
> I have tested the windlg package. Is there anyway to "persit" the menus?.
> For instance, could I set R up so that it automatically re-creates my
> menu/dialogs upon startup. ?

Make that part of your .Rprofile: see ?Startup, or read R-intro!

>
> Many thanks
>
>
> >From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> >To: Neil Osborne <r_stuff_online at hotmail.com>
> >CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> >Subject: Re: [R] Building Rgui.exe with Visual Studio
> >Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:13:35 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
> >
> >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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