R help - Sep 2004 - R CMD SHLIB setup problem...

All, 
When I try and compile a shared library (on WinXP) I get the following
error:  

E:\data\proj>R CMD SHLIB toy_dll.c
Makevars:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Has someone else had this error and fixed it? 

This code compiles and works fine on Linux (fedora core 2). Everything
was working fine under R1.8.1 but I've broken something when I upgraded
to R1.9.1. 

So I am assuming something weird has happened in the windows paths etc.
If anyone has some tips as to where to look I'd be extremely grateful.
I've been through the path and environment variables etc many times but
can't see where the error is. Though I realize it's likely to be staring
me in the face...

Thanks 

Toby 
> version
         _              
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     i386           
os       mingw32        
system   i386, mingw32  
status                  
major    1              
minor    9.1            
year     2004           
month    06             
day      21             
language R

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:29:31 +1000, <Toby.Patterson at csiro.au> wrote:
>All, 
>When I try and compile a shared library (on WinXP) I get the following
>error:  
>
>E:\data\proj>R CMD SHLIB toy_dll.c
>Makevars:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
>Has someone else had this error and fixed it? 
Haven't had the error, but the usual suspects are:

 - You're getting the wrong make.  Follow the readme.packages
instructions for setting up your path, and make sure "make --version"
tells you you're running GNU Make.

 - Something has messed up your Makevars file.  Does it look normal in
a reasonable text editor?

Duncan Murdoch

I've compared my Makevars to someone else's and we both have the same
thing:

CFLAGS+= -I$(RHOME)/src/gnuwin32/graphapp

So I assume this is correct? (And the compiler is definitely GNU make). 

When I tried to recompile another bit of C code I got the following
error:

make: *** No rule to make target `C:/PROGRA~1/R/rw1081/src/include/R.h',
needed by `filter_norm.o'.
 Stop.

So it looks like its looking for the R 1.8.1 versions of R.h. I just
can't work out why. I've dumped SET to a file and checked that nothing
on the path or any of the environment variables point to the old
directory. It all looks OK to me. 

As far as I am aware nothing here uses the windows registry so I am
assuming there shouldn't be any problems there.  

Cheers 
T. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:58 AM
To: Patterson, Toby (Marine, Hobart)
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] R CMD SHLIB setup problem...

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:29:31 +1000, <Toby.Patterson at csiro.au> wrote:
>All, 
>When I try and compile a shared library (on WinXP) I get the following
>error:  
>
>E:\data\proj>R CMD SHLIB toy_dll.c
>Makevars:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
>Has someone else had this error and fixed it? 
Haven't had the error, but the usual suspects are:

 - You're getting the wrong make.  Follow the readme.packages
instructions for setting up your path, and make sure "make --version"
tells you you're running GNU Make.

 - Something has messed up your Makevars file.  Does it look normal in
a reasonable text editor?

Duncan Murdoch