On Sat, 12 Nov 2011, peter dalgaard wrote:
On Nov 12, 2011, at 15:25 , Mark Carter wrote:
I tried to build R-2.14.0 on cygwin using the commands:
./configure --with-x=no
make
I started to get a whole lot of errors starting with:
/cygdrive/c/Users/mcarter/src/R-2.14.0/src/modules/internet/Rhttpd.c:275:
undefined reference to `_R_InputHandlers'
which I have pasted at
http://pastebin.com/GFb2pq92
I'm aware that there is a cygwinports ports, but it seems outdated, and when I
tried installing it, it was very lengthy and seemed more trouble that it was
worth. I abandoned the installation attempt.
Any tips on a way forward?
As far as I can tell, what is happening to you is that cygwin needs
special configuration to build .dll libraries and ./configure does
not know how to set that up.
It does. Currently R can be built under Cygwin, and how to do so is
documented in the R-admin manual. But that was not the case a few
weeks ago, so you need to look in R-patched/R-devel (and Cygwin might
change again ...).
R is not officially supported under Cygwin. Basically, we - er,
Brian, mostly, I think - tried it several years ago, and it broke so
many times that patience ran out.
It was broken from most of 2011 too, for three separate reasons.
Even when it 'works', it is far slower than the native Windows port
and it fails 'make check' (not handling CR-delimited files, problems
with wide-characters as Cygwin does not have proper locales).
Others seem to be having better luck with recent versions (Google
finds something that looks like ports of 2.13.2, so you might just
need a little patience to get 2.14.0), but I think you're altogether
better off over on
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cygwin-ports-general
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