Solution to this error was quite trivial in the end.
There is 10,000 hard coded at around line 188 ff of the
.../gnuwin32/installer/Makefile
Referring to this part here:
# currently use about 3500: allow for EXTRA_PKGS
uuids: uuidgen.exe
./uuidgen 1 > $@
This calls uuidgen to generate a certain number (here 10,000) uuids, which then
get consumed by WiXins.R for file GUIDsto be used in "R.wxs".
So if that gets increased to say 20,000 the msi build toolset works again for
R-4.1.3.
The whole R-4.1.3 msi build for me consumed a little less than 15,000 uuids;
I recently (May 15, 2022) also did some testing on building .msi for
R-4.2.0patched and there less than 4,500 uuids (4156 to be exact) were consumed
– which is a (interestingly) much smaller number, reasons for which I did not
investigate in detail.
Meaning that .msi builds (by WiX) should or at least still seem to work even
with the new Rtools42 toolchain and without errors and just in case someone
else experiences an error like the one described in this thread - make sure to
check if there were enough uuids generated – a good indicator of insufficient
number of uuids/GUIDs being those NAs popping up in the R.wxs file!
G, W
-Original Message-
From: Duncan Murdoch
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:15 PM
To: Gmail ; 'Tomas Kalibera'
; r-devel@R-project.org
Subject: Re: [Rd] Building R-4.1.3 from source - creating .msi fails
On 10/05/2022 3:01 p.m., Gmail wrote:
> Thanks for the swift reply.
>
> Maybe some clarifications from my side - I am not referring to the R-4.2.0
> version (manual).
> But the earlier up to R-4.1.3 version manuals, where there always was a
> section about "Building the MSI installer" [right after Building the Inno
> Setup Installer] included (ending with thanks to David del Campo).
Some more clarification, please: which manual are you talking about? I don't
see those sections in the R Admin manual. Maybe they were conditional on the
Windows build?
> And as far as I can tell the Inno Setup section is also gone from the 4.2.0
> manual now? On purpose?
You could look at the svn history of the source file to see what the log
message says. So could I, if I only knew which manual you are looking at.
> Then why is it that there is still an /installer folder in R-4.2.0 with all
> the Inno Setup files eg header.iss and JRins.R as well as WiXins.R in it, and
> the installer/Makefile also still includes all these sections.
>
> So in the spirit of things I guess that all lines in the
> .../installer/Makefile (line 49 and lines 180 ff.) as well as the whole
> “WiXins.R” file in the /installer folder should be removed from
> R-4.1.3.tar.gz (which is available in that form for download from r-project)?
> And judging from the manual the .iss related parts as well?
The 4.1.3 tarfile has been released, and can't be modified. The only way a
modification would be possible would be to release a new 4.1.x patch version,
but that's really, really unlikely.
> At the same time R-4.0.5 msi build works fine so probably should not be
> altered/removed in R-4.0.5.tar.gz?
Changes there are even less likely, so don't worry about them.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> G, W
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Tomas Kalibera
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2022 3:07 PM
> To: Gmail ; r-devel@R-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Building R-4.1.3 from source - creating .msi fails
>
>
> On 5/9/22 18:36, Gmail wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> lately I was building R-4.1.3 from source and as the final step I
>> decided to also try and build the .msi file.
>>
>> I was following along the R Admin manual and using Jeroens
>> “r-windows/r-base” GitHub repo as a basis.
>> The build, the tests all the way to the Inno-Setup Windows .exe installer
>> completed successfully - but not the "R-4.1.3.msi" file.
>
> The MSI installer is not supported. I can't see it mentioned in R-Admin, but
> if you found it there or in some documentation, please report, so that it can
> be removed.
>
> Best
> Tomas
>
>> Since I am not really knowledgeable when it comes to debugging WiX failures
>> I was hoping someone here has some helpful comments.
>>
>> Below are the logs/output/errors/file excerpts:
>> =
>>
>> R-4.1.3.log:
>>
>> Windows Installer XML Toolset Compiler version 3.11.2.4516 Copyright
>> (c) .NET Foundation and contributors. All rights reserved.
>>
>> *** asterisk lines separate content of different files
>> **
>>
>> *
