Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jennifer Lai wrote: > >> Hi, >> Has anyone had success in building R source with Visual Studio? I >> followed the instructions in README.packages, but failed on the very >> first step, where it's looking for R.dll. I looked through R source and >> couldn't find the file. Can someone point me to where this file is >> located or generated? Thanks! > > > R.dll is the main file generated, and the first step is to build > Rpwd.exe. > Do you really mean the R source?
Yes, I would like to build the entire R source using Visual Studio instead of MinGW. Visual Studio seems the only way to build a 64-bit R currently. However, to go get there, I thought I'll try building a 32-bit version first. Regards, Jennifer > > People have built R for Windows with Visual Studio (using their own > projects/makefiles and other tools to generate .def files) but it did > not work correctly. It seems that the IEC60559 (aka IEEE754) > compliance of VC++ was not adequate -- as I recall it thought -Inf > 3. > > This isn't the list for such programming questions: R-devel would be > more appropriate. > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
