On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Jeffrey Horner <jeffrey.hor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Duncan Murdoch > <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 08/09/2010 1:21 PM, Jeffrey Horner wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm setting up a development environment on Windows as the subject >>> implies. I've downloaded and installed Rtools211.exe (will upgrade >>> later when necessary) and I've also downloaded and installed mingw >>> with the help of mingw-get.exe. >>> >>> I come from a UNIX development background, so I'm at the bash shell >>> prompt for just about every step in R extenstion development. Question >>> is what is an appropriate environment for Windows development. What >>> shell do you use? Do you use cmd.exe with the PATH variable set up by >>> Rtools? Do you use the sh.exe that comes with Rtools? I've found the >>> bash shell from MinGW to be a pretty close equivalent to bash on UNIX. >>> Do you use something else? >>> >> >> I've used the bash shell in Cygwin for quite a few years, but I've been >> planning a switch to MSYS sometime. Cygwin seems to have made some bad >> decisions lately that make it harder and harder to work with. > > This is great news! I don't know how I could survive without bash's vi > style editing and command completion... > > Here's my PATH variable which sets the Rtools paths first, then MinGW: > > horn...@hornerj-win ~ > $ echo $PATH > /c/Rtools/bin:/c/Rtools/perl/bin:/c/Rtools/MinGW/bin:/c/localbin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lo > cal/bin:/c/Program Files (x86)/R/R-2.11.1/bin:/c/Program Files > (x86)/CollabNet/Subversion Client: > /c/Windows/system32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1. > 0/:/c/Program Files (x86)/MiKTeX 2.8/miktex/bin > > I'm going to follow the "R Installation ..." manual to compile R on > Windows and learn a bit about the build process. From there, I intend > to "port" some open source libraries that have support for being > compiled with MS VC++ over to MinGW.
>From the MinGW bash shell, the R build went quite smoothly. However, I did run into trouble with temporary files. I got around it by specifying TMPDIR like so: $ cd R_HOME/src/gnuwin32 $ TMPDIR=. /c/Rtools/bin/make all If I didn't set TMPDIR, it would default to /tmp and the failure would occur within the mkR target of R_HOME/share/make/basepkg.mk. For reasons beyond me, the shell environment that's entered within the mkR target has no notion of a root directory. Anyone else seen this? Jeff > > Aside from my PATH variable, are there other things about my > development environment I should be aware of? > > Jeff > -- http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
