[R] R-1.7.0 WIN2000 INSTALL

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

This is the first time I've ever compiled from sources so bear with me.

OS: Windows 2000
PATH:
   .:
   D:/Rtools/:
   D:/mingw/bin/:
   C:/Progra~1/Perl/bin:
   D:/texmf/miktex/bin/:
   D:/Progra~1/HTMLHe~1:
   D:/Progra~1/R/rw1062/bin/:
   C:/Progra~1/Insightful/splus61/cmd/:
   D:/cygwin/bin:
   D:/Progra~1/SSHCom~1/SSHSec~1:
   D:/Progra~1/Tcl/bin/:
   C:/Progra~1/Microso~3/VC98/Bin

I've read src/gnuwin32/INSTALL and changed all the pertintent lines in 
src/gnuwin32/MkRules.

I'm running `make' under a bash shell. I couldn't get `make' to run in a 
DOS shell (I'm not sure why). I've removed `cygwin1.dll' and 
`cygpcre.dll' in the cygwin directory so as not to conflict with the 
ones supplied in `Rtools.zip'. Then when I run `make' in src/gnuwin32/ 
it seems to work fine until it reaches this point:

dlltool -k --as as   --dllname Rblas.dll \
   --def Rblas.def --output-lib libRblas.a
d:\mingw\bin\dlltool.exe: installation problem, cannot exec `as'
make[1]: *** [libRblas.a] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/R/R-1.7.0/src/gnuwin32'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Any ideas? Need more info?

Best,
Sundar