R devel - Mar 2011 - problem with building bitmapdll on Windows

Dear R Development People:
 
I was trying to build R-2.12.2 from source on a Windows XP machine.
 
Doing the make all recommended works fine, but building the bitmap dll is a
problem.
 
It seems to be in the libpng directory.  I got libpng-1.5.1, and untarred it. 
However, there is no makefile.mingw file in the scripts directory.
 
I then obtained a version of libpng-1.4.5, and the file is there.  The dll file
builds fine.
 
We might want to look at the libpng-1.5.1 directory.
 
Thanks for listening,
Sincerely,
Erin
 
 
Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgesse@uhd.edu
 

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On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> Dear R Development People:
>
> I was trying to build R-2.12.2 from source on a Windows XP machine.
>
> Doing the make all recommended works fine, but building the bitmap 
> dll is a problem.
>
> It seems to be in the libpng directory.  I got libpng-1.5.1, and 
> untarred it.  However, there is no makefile.mingw file in the 
> scripts directory.
>
> I then obtained a version of libpng-1.4.5, and the file is there. 
> The dll file builds fine.
>
> We might want to look at the libpng-1.5.1 directory.
libpng 1.5.1 is not supported for R 2.12.2: it will be for 2.13.0. 
The documentation does say so ...

You need libpng, jpeg and libtiff sources (available, e.g., from 
http://www.libpng.org/, http://www.ijg.org and 
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/). You will need files 
libpng-1.2.18.tar.gz (including ?1.4.x? but not ?1.5.x?), 
jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz, tiff-3.8.0.tar.gz (but not ?4.0.0beta?) or later.
>
> Thanks for listening,
> Sincerely,
> Erin
>
>
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>
>
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