Should I take it then that following the instructions in src/gnuwin32/INSTALL should allow one to use the .exe's from tools.zip inside a cygwin bash shell? Following those instructions used to work for me, but it no longer does -- I get the cygwin1.dll conflict error no matter what I do. The only thing that works for me is to remove the cygwin1.dll that came with tools.zip (and thus use the cygwin1.dll that came with cygwin.) I wonder if something has changed in either Windows 2000 or in cygwin that makes cygwin1.dll more persistent than it used to be?
-- Tony Plate
At Wednesday 07:38 PM 3/17/2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:49:41 -0700, you wrote:
>To build R from source in a Windows system, do you 'make' from cygwin bash, >or from a Windows command line prompt?
I currently use Cygwin's bash, but I used to use Win98's command line prompt. I think they both still work, but the command line prompt is not being tested much these days.
> After reading >src/gnuwin32/{INSTALL,readme,readme.packages} and the rw-FAQ, I strongly >suspect the shell commands in there are are intended to be run from only >the Windows command line prompt. I couldn't find any explicit mention of >which shell to use, but in rw-FAQ and readme.packages, the 'cd' commands >(at least those intended for execution on Windows systems) all use backward >slashes, which implies Windows command line. In src/gnuwin32/INSTALL, the >'cd' commands have forward slashes, which only works with a unix-style >shell, like bash. However I suspect those are typos.
I wouldn't pay too much attention to the direction of the slashes. The documentation is generally written for the users who use the standard Windows shell, so backslashes are appropriate, but the developers mainly use Unix-like shells, so forward slashes are what we use. In fact, forward slashes work in many places in Windows (including the Win XP command line prompt).
Duncan Murdoch
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