[R] error when when making package tcltk from source (R.0.1)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Renaud Lancelot wrote:

> Dear R-Helpers,
>
> I am working with Windows XP.
> I am trying to build R 2.0.1 from source (R-2.0.1.tar.gz downloaded from 
> CRAN).
> I read the R Installation and Administration manual and the README.packages 
> file as well (probably tot carefully enough !).
>
> I installed the recommended tools and software including TCL/TK software 
> (from archive ActiveTcl8.4.9.0.121397-win32-ix86.exe).

That is not the recommendation in src/gnuwin32/INSTALL (the file you seem 
to have missed).

>  I modified the PATH 
> system variable and created new user variables:
>
> TCLTK_CPPFLAGS=C:\tcl\include
> TCLTK_LIBS=C:\tcl\lib
>
> I meet the following error when building R:
>
> CD C:\R-2.0.1\src\gnuwin32
> make all bitmapdll recommended vignettes
>
> [snip]
>
> ---------- Making package tcltk ------------
>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
>  installing NAMESPACE file and metadata
>  running src/Makefile.win ...
> gcc  -IC:/R-2.0.1/include -Wall -O2 -I "C:/R-2.0.1/Tcl"/include -DWin32  -c
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
NB.  You need to set the path in MkRules.

> init.c -o init.o
> tcltk.h:3:17 tcl.h: No such file or directory
> tcltk.h:4:16 tk.h: No such file or directory
> make[5]: *** [init.o] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [srcDynlib] Error 2
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [pkg-tcltk] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I checked in the Tcl installation and tcl.h and tk.h are actually in the 
> tcl\include directory.
>
> What did I do wrong, and how to fix it ?
>
> Thanks and best regards,
>
> Renaud
>
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