R help - Aug 2005 - problems installing R from source: R-2.1.1 Windows XP

Hi everyone,

I’m a Windows XP user.  I’m trying to install R-2.1.1 from source, and it 
doesn’t work.  Here’s what I have done:

    * Got the source code from CRAN : R-2.1.1.tar.gz
    * Ran ‘tar zxvf R-2.1.1.tar.gz’ in a CMD terminal window. Everything 
worked fine.  I got my R-2.1.1 folder in C:/Rsource.
    * I got the iconv.dll file downloaded and unzipped it in 
C:/Rsource/src/gnuwin32/unicode. No problem there.
    * I also unzipped R_Tcl.zip in C:/Rsource.
    * I got the files libpng-1.2.8.tar.gz and jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz, put them 
in C:/Rsource/src/gnumin32/bitmap/ and unzipped them there.
    * I installed the HTML help workshop in C:/.
    * I installed the R tools (the latest version of it) in C:/.
    * I installed the Perl 5 in C:/.
    * I installed the MinGW (4.1.1) in C:/. For this program, I downloaded 
the f771.exe file and replaced the one that was in 
/libexec/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/f771.exe.
    * I downloaded the files opencow.dll and libunicows.a and installed 
them respectively in src/gnuwin32/unicode and MinGW/lib.
    * I took the .sty and .fd R files from C:/Rsource/R-2.1.1/share/texmf/ 
(omsaer.fd, omsaett.fd, omscmtt.fd, Rd.sty, Sweave.sty, ts1aer.fd, 
ts1aett.fd and upquote.sty) and copied them in 
C:/Rsource/localtexmf/tex.  I then went to Start | Programs | MiKteX | 
MiKTeK Options | General and updated and refreshed everything.
    * I got the following paths in variable environment of the system:
C:\tools\bin\;C:\Perl\bin\;C:\MinGW\bin\;C:\Rsource\latex\miktex\bin\;C:\HTML_Help_Workshop\;C:\Rsource\Tcl\bin\;…


I open a CMD terminal window, and run make. I got the error message that we 
can see at the bottom of this terminal window.  I then thought it was 
MiKTeX that was not well installed.  I did it again, and reran the make. 
Here’s what I got:

C:\Rsource\R-2.1.1\src\gnuwin32>make
make[1]: `Rpwd.exe' is up to date.
make -f Makefile.docfiles
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `docfiles'.
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'.
installing C headers
make[2]: `all' is up to date.
make[2]: `libRblas.a' is up to date.
make -f Makefile.docfiles
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `docfiles'.
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `svnonly'.
installing C headers
make --no-print-directory -C ../extra/intl -f Makefile.win
make --no-print-directory -C ../appl  OPTFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -pedantic' -f 
Makefile
.win
make --no-print-directory -C ../nmath OPTFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -pedantic' -f 
Makefile
.win
make --no-print-directory -C ../main  OPTFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -pedantic 
-DLEA_MALLOC
' -f Makefile.win
make --no-print-directory -C ./graphapp
make --no-print-directory -C ./getline
make[4]: `gl.a' is up to date.
make[4]: `libxdr.a' is up to date.
make[3]: `R.dll' is up to date.
cp R.dll ../../bin/
make[2]: `libR.a' is up to date.
make[2]: `../../bin/Rblas.dll' is up to date.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `CHTML'.
make --no-print-directory -C front-ends
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: `COPYRIGHTS' is up to date.
make --no-print-directory -C ../modules \
   OPTFLAGS='-O2 -Wall -pedantic' FOPTFLAGS='-O2 -Wall' -f
Makefile.win
make[5]: `../../../bin/Rlapack.dll' is up to date.
make[5]: `../../../lib/libRlapack.a' is up to date.
make[5]: `../../../modules/lapack.dll' is up to date.
cp unicode/iconv.dll ../../modules/
   making bootstrap versions of packages ...
   ... done

---------- Making package base ------------
   adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
         shared library 'tools' not found
Execution halted
make[4]: *** [frontmatter] Error 1
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: *** [pkg-base] Error 2
make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I can’t get ride of this error. I don’t know where it is coming from or 
what to do about it.  Any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you for your precious time,

Marie-Hélène Ouellette



=========================================================Marie-Hélène Ouellette
UNIVERSITE DE MONTRÉAL
Département de sciences biologiques
Tél. (514) 343-6111 poste 1233
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