[R] Trying to build R sources on Windows

[Bill Northcott]

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