Dear Brian, > -----Original Message----- > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk] > Sent: July-14-10 3:15 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer > > John, > > It is not clear to me what you actually did (and I am also assuming > this is 32-bit R), but I surmise that you did not build R in your > source directory.
Yes, that's right. It wasn't clear to me from the manual that it was necessary to build R (or as it turns out, just MkRules) when using IMAGEDIR. I guess that this has changed since I last built a custom installer, or my notes were incomplete. > One of the first steps in doing so is to make > src/gnuwin32/MkRules. (You are also likely to need to customize the > file, possibly via a MkRules.local, to set ISDIR.) Not necessary in my case, since Inno Setup is in the default location. > > I've done a quick check, and in R 2.11.x AFAICS all that is needed is > > cd R_SOURCES/src/gnuwin32 > make MkRules > cd installer > make myR IMAGEDIR=e:/temp/R-2.11.1 MDISDI=1 Yes, this works fine for me as well. Thank you very much. John > > However, in 2.12.0 you will need to make R completely in the sources, > as R is used for scripting. > > Brian > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, John Fox wrote: > > > Dear r-devel list members, > > > > It's been several years since I last built a custom Windows installer for > R, > > and despite my notes and the instructions in Sections 3.1.7 and D.4 of the > R > > Installation and Administration Manual, I've run into a problem, receiving > > the following error message: > > > > ----------- snip ----------- > > > > C:\R\src\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32\installer>make myR IMAGEDIR=c:/temp/R-2.11.1 > > MDISDI=1 > > Makefile:3: ../MkRules: No such file or directory > > make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found > > make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found > > make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found > > make: ../fixed/rwver.pl: Command not found > > make: *** No rule to make target `../MkRules'. Stop. > > > > ----------- snip ----------- > > > > My path looks like this: > > > > ----------- snip ----------- > > > > C:\R\src\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32\installer>set path > > Path=c:\Rtools\bin;c:\Rtools\perl\bin;c:\Rtools\MinGW\bin;C:\Program > > Files\Commo > > n Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\GTK\bin;C:\Program > > Files\Insightful\spl > > us80\;C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo Edit > > 4\;.;c:\R\R-2.11.1\bin;C:\progra~ > > > 1\miktex~1.7\miktex\bin;c:\progra~1\htmlhe~1;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows; > > C:\W > > indows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio > > Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Pr > > ogram Files\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files\CollabNet Subversion;C:\Program > > Files\ > > MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin;C:\Program Files\SAS\Shared > > Files\Formats;C:\Program > > > Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program > > Fil > > es\Smart Projects\IsoBuster;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX > > 2.7\miktex\bin\;C:\Program F > > iles\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft > > Shared\Windows > > Live;C:\Program Files\SSH Communications Security\SSH Secure > > Shell;C:\Program Fi > > les\Bibtex2html;C:\Graphviz2.20\bin > > PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC > > > > ----------- snip ----------- > > > > The directory c:/temp/R-2.11.1 contains a complete customized installation > > of R, while C:\R\src\R-2.11.1 contains the unpacked R sources. This is on a > > Windows Vista system. I've updated Rtools to version 2.11. I can supply > > more information, but I'm not sure what's relevant. > > > > I don't think that I should have to place a MkRules file in the gnuwin32 > > directory, but I tried copying each the MkRules.dist and MkRules.rules > files > > there in turn to MkRules. Neither worked; I apparently got farther copying > > MkRules.rules to MkRules, but eventually got another error: > > > > ----------- snip ----------- > > > > C:\R\src\R-2.11.1\src\gnuwin32\installer>make myR IMAGEDIR=c:/temp/R-2.11.1 > > MDISDI=1 > > echo "make.packages.html(.Library)" | c:/temp/R-2.11.1/bin/rterm --vanilla > > --sla > > ve LC_COLLATE=C > > Making packages.html ... done > > adding MD5 checksums > > perl JRins.pl R-2.11.1 c:/temp/R-2.11.1 1 1 0 R-core > > "/iscc" R.iss > myR.log > > /iscc: not found > > make: *** [myR] Error 127 > > > > ----------- snip ----------- > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > John > > > > -------------------------------- > > John Fox > > Senator William McMaster > > Professor of Social Statistics > > Department of Sociology > > McMaster University > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > > web: socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel