[R] R-1.7.0 WIN2000 INSTALL

[Uwe Ligges]

Sundar Dorai-Raj wrote:
> 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). 

For compiling R, make is ought to be executed in the windows command 
shell. Please start debugging here ...

Uwe Ligges

 > 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
> 
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