iconv.dll in Windows

I recently built R-devel on Windows XP (sessionInfo below), and when loading libraries that require the iconv.dll was getting an error stating that 'This application has failed to start because iconv.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.'.

An R-2.8.1 that I installed using the Windows installer has this dll in R-2.8.1/bin, whereas in R-devel it is still in R-devel/src/gnuwin32/unicode. Moving the dll  to R-devel/bin alleviates the problem.

I built using the recent recommendations of P. Dalgaard  (make Rpwd.exe, make link-recommended, make all recommended). I don't see anything in the NEWS for this version, but maybe I missed something?

Best,

Jim

sessionInfo()

R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-11 r48117) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] XML_1.99-0

See .../R/src/gnuwin32/CHANGES:

   o	iconv() is now done by a version of Yukihiro Nakadaira's
	win_iconv rather than by libiconv.  This version is based on
	Windows' codepages and is not quite as comprehensive as
	libiconv: it is however much smaller and easier to maintain.
	The implementation here is 100% compatible: you can drop in
	libiconv's iconv.dll as a replacement if you need it, from
	http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/Riconv.dll.

	To avoid name conflicts with Gtk+, it has been renamed to
	Riconv.dll.

Uwe Ligges



James MacDonald wrote:

I recently built R-devel on Windows XP (sessionInfo below), and when 
loading libraries that require the iconv.dll was getting an error stating 
that 'This application has failed to start because iconv.dll was not found. 
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.'.

An R-2.8.1 that I installed using the Windows installer has this dll in 
R-2.8.1/bin, whereas in R-devel it is still in 
R-devel/src/gnuwin32/unicode. Moving the dll  to R-devel/bin alleviates the 
problem.

I built using the recent recommendations of P. Dalgaard  (make Rpwd.exe, 
make link-recommended, make all recommended). I don't see anything in the 
NEWS for this version, but maybe I missed something?

Best,

Jim

sessionInfo()

R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-03-11 r48117) 
i386-pc-mingw32 
locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United 
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United 
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base 
other attached packages:
[1] XML_1.99-0