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Building R-1.7.0 on cygwin

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Guy Horev wrote:

            
From: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/ (entitled: "Building R for 
Windows"):

"Support for the Cygwin compiler suite has been withdrawn: it has 
perennially been broken in the -mno-cygwin mode used with R."

The portal gives comprehensive instructions for building R, with links to 
the tools needed. R built for Windows (including the binaries on CRAN) can 
be used from within cygwin if you like - including Rterm, but should be 
built following the standard instructions, which are based on a great deal 
of hard work and experience. Again, if you need to use R under cygwin, use 
the regular build.
I think you will find traces of why the main R binary, R.bin, has not been 
made in the output from the ./configure and make steps.