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? 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. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
