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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
