Hi,
Has anyone had success in building R source with Visual Studio? I
followed the instructions in README.packages, but failed on the very
first step, where it's looking for R.dll. I looked through R source and
couldn't find the file. Can someone point me to where this file is
located or generated? Thanks!
Sincerely,
Jennifer
Hi, R.ll is in my C:\Program Files\R\R-2.3.0\bin. My OS is Win XP. On 6/6/06, Jennifer Lai <lai at lindaspaces.com> wrote:> Hi, > Has anyone had success in building R source with Visual Studio? I > followed the instructions in README.packages, but failed on the very > first step, where it's looking for R.dll. I looked through R source and > couldn't find the file. Can someone point me to where this file is > located or generated? Thanks! > > > Sincerely, > Jennifer > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jennifer Lai wrote:> Hi, > Has anyone had success in building R source with Visual Studio? I > followed the instructions in README.packages, but failed on the very > first step, where it's looking for R.dll. I looked through R source and > couldn't find the file. Can someone point me to where this file is > located or generated? Thanks!R.dll is the main file generated, and the first step is to build Rpwd.exe. Do you really mean the R source? People have built R for Windows with Visual Studio (using their own projects/makefiles and other tools to generate .def files) but it did not work correctly. It seems that the IEC60559 (aka IEEE754) compliance of VC++ was not adequate -- as I recall it thought -Inf > 3. This isn't the list for such programming questions: R-devel would be more appropriate. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Prof Brian Ripley wrote:> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jennifer Lai wrote: > >> Hi, >> Has anyone had success in building R source with Visual Studio? I >> followed the instructions in README.packages, but failed on the very >> first step, where it's looking for R.dll. I looked through R source and >> couldn't find the file. Can someone point me to where this file is >> located or generated? Thanks! > > > R.dll is the main file generated, and the first step is to build > Rpwd.exe. > Do you really mean the R source?Yes, I would like to build the entire R source using Visual Studio instead of MinGW. Visual Studio seems the only way to build a 64-bit R currently. However, to go get there, I thought I'll try building a 32-bit version first. Regards, Jennifer> > People have built R for Windows with Visual Studio (using their own > projects/makefiles and other tools to generate .def files) but it did > not work correctly. It seems that the IEC60559 (aka IEEE754) > compliance of VC++ was not adequate -- as I recall it thought -Inf > 3. > > This isn't the list for such programming questions: R-devel would be > more appropriate. >