On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Uwe Ligges wrote:
See .../R/src/gnuwin32/CHANGES:
o iconv() is now done by a version of Yukihiro Nakadaira's
win_iconv rather than by libiconv. This version is based on
Windows' codepages and is not quite as comprehensive as
libiconv: it is however much smaller and easier to maintain.
The implementation here is 100% compatible: you can drop in
libiconv's iconv.dll as a replacement if you need it, from
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/Riconv.dll.
To avoid name conflicts with Gtk+, it has been renamed to
Riconv.dll.
and
o Since iconv.dll has been renamed, packages wanting to link
against it need to use -lRiconv (or, hetter, use the entry
points in R_exts/Riconv.h).
Uwe Ligges
James MacDonald wrote:
I recently built R-devel on Windows XP (sessionInfo below), and when
loading libraries that require the iconv.dll was getting an error stating
that 'This application has failed to start because iconv.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.'.
An R-2.8.1 that I installed using the Windows installer has this dll in
R-2.8.1/bin, whereas in R-devel it is still in
R-devel/src/gnuwin32/unicode. Moving the dll to R-devel/bin alleviates the
problem.
I built using the recent recommendations of P. Dalgaard (make Rpwd.exe,
make link-recommended, make all recommended). I don't see anything in the
NEWS for this version, but maybe I missed something?
Best,
Jim
sessionInfo()
R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-11 r48117)
i386-pc-mingw32
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base
other attached packages:
[1] XML_1.99-0
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