Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

2010-07-14 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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. 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

Re: [Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

2010-07-14 Thread John Fox
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

[Rd] Building a custom Windows installer

2010-07-13 Thread John Fox
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: ---