[R] Trying to build R sources on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

Bill Northcott wrote:
> On 18/06/2005, at 10:34 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
>>>I am trying without success to build the R-2.1.0 sources on  
>>>Windows  2003 server.
>>>I have MinGW/bin in front of cygwin/bin in the Windows path.
> 
> 
>>I don't think it is a good idea to leave cygwin in your path for  
>>compiling R, even using it prior to the build process might be  
>>dangerous, because you might use another version of cygwin(1).dll  
>>than the one in the tools collection etc.
>>
>>Just set your path again without having cygwin in it..., this  
>>should be sufficient if you have all other relevant tools installed  
>>and in your path.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the thoughts.  I have now got past this road block, and  
> have almost managed to build everything.  Along the way, it is clear  
> there are some glaring omissions/misleading statements in the current  
> documentation.
> 
> When I have it all working, I will write it up on R-devel and perhaps  
> some one could update the documentation.
> 
> Bill Northcott
> 
> PS The immediate cause of the header file problems was src/gnuwin32/ 
> fixed/h/config.h.  This needs to be regenerated for every build  
> configuration.  This is not documented except obliquely in src/ 
> gnuwin32/Maintainer.notes

Are you running configure?  Why?

Duncan Murdoch