AW: [R] running Rcmd INSTALL, again

[RINNER Heinrich]

Indeed, there is no file named "dlltool" anywhere around here!
So, at last I am beginning to suspect that my collection of tools is
incomplete.
What I have got is "rw1020sp.zip" and
"http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/tools.zip". These are properly
istalled, I think.

readme.packages says "If your package has no C nor Fortran nor C++ sources,
see `Simple ports' 
near the bottom of this file." I don't have any of these sources; going to
the bottom, readme.packages says:
"You will need 
suitable versions of Unix tools including make, sh, rm, sed, awk,
mkdir, echo, cp and cat; we have packaged a set at
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/tools.zip.
perl5, available via http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/"

I might have misunderstood something here.
Q: Do I have to compile R myself in order to be able to use Rcmd?
Q: Do I have to get "bin-msvcrt-2000-03-27.zip",
"binutils-19990818-1-msvcrt.zip", and "gcc-2.95.2-1-msvcrt.zip" from
"http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/bdr/RWin/tools.zip", even if my package has
no C nor Fortran nor C++ sources?

Heinrich.

> ----------
> Von: 	Peter Dalgaard BSA[SMTP:p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk]
> Gesendet: 	Freitag, 05. Jänner 2001 11:08
> An: 	RINNER Heinrich
> Cc: 	'r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch'
> Betreff: 	Re: [R] running Rcmd INSTALL, again
> 
> RINNER Heinrich <H.RINNER at TIROL.GV.AT> writes:
> 
> > Ok, one last try. R1.2.0, WinNT 4.0:
> > [R is installed in: R_HOME=D:\Programme\R\rw1020]
> > 
> > Can anyone give a hint what the following error message (when running
> Rcmd
> > INSTALL) means and what to do about it? 
> > 
> > cd D:\Programme\R\rw1020\src\library
> > D:\Programme\R\rw1020\bin\rcmd install testfunctions
> > make: Entering directory `/cygdrive/d/Programme/R/rw1020/src/gnuwin32'
> > dlltool -k --as as   --dllname R.dll --def R.exp --output-lib libR.a
> > make: dlltool: Command not found
> > make: *** [libR.a] Error 127
> > make: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/d/Programme/R/rw1020/src/gnuwin32'
> > *** Installation of testfunctions failed ***
> 
> That would seem to mean that dlltool is not in your PATH or
> nonexistant. I'm more than a bit rusty on the native Windows builds,
> but I believe dlltool is supposed to be found among all the other
> gnuwin32 tools like gcc.
> 
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