[R] yet another windows installation from source issue

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 12-07-08 3:23 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> I'm starting to think that I should just install from the binary, but
> here is my latest effort to install from source on a Windows 7 64 bit:

It looks as though your path is messed up.  You shouldn't have mingw32 
tools on it.

The entries should be

c:/Rtools/bin;c:/Rtools/gcc-4.6.3/bin;...

(where c:/ might be different on your system).  No other Rtools or gcc 
or MinGW directories should be on the path.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> c:\R64\R-patched>cd src
> cd src
>
> c:\R64\R-patched\src>cd gnuwin32/
> cd gnuwin32/
>
> c:\R64\R-patched\src\gnuwin32>set TMPDIR=c:\temp
> set TMPDIR=c:\temp
>
> c:\R64\R-patched\src\gnuwin32>make all recommended
> make all recommended
> make[1]: `MkRules' is up to date.
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'.
> installing C headers
> make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[2]: x86_64-w64-mingw32-dlltool: Command not found
> make[2]: *** [libRblas.dll.a] Error 127
> make[1]: *** [rbuild] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> c:\R64\R-patched\src\gnuwin32>
>
> I did indeed install R-tools.
>
> This is very strange.
>
> Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
>