Please read R-admin section 3.1 - as you'll notice it doesn't say anything about running ./configure since that's only for unix.
http://r.research.att.com/man/R-admin.html#Building-from-source Cheers, Simon On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Edoardo Baldoni <edoardo.bald...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R users, > I would need some help in building R using minGW in windows 8.1. After > using the command *configure *(./configure --enable-R-shlib > --with-readline=no --with-x=no), I use the command *make. *This results in > the following error: > > [...] > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Edoardo/r-3.1.2/src/nmath' > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Edoardo/r-3.1.2/src/unix' > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Edoardo/r-3.1.2/src/unix' > gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include > -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 -c dynload.c -o dynload.o > dynload.c: In function 'Rf_InitFunctionHashing': > dynload.c:69:32: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type > [enabled by default] > R_osDynSymbol->loadLibrary = loadLibrary; > ^ > dynload.c:71:33: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type > [enabled by default] > R_osDynSymbol->closeLibrary = closeLibrary; > ^ > dynload.c: At top level: > dynload.c:97:13: error: conflicting types for 'closeLibrary' > static void closeLibrary(HINSTANCE handle) > ^ > dynload.c:59:13: note: previous declaration of 'closeLibrary' was here > static void closeLibrary(void *handle); > ^ > dynload.c:59:13: warning: 'closeLibrary' used but never defined [enabled by > default] > make[3]: *** [dynload.o] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Edoardo/r-3.1.2/src/unix' > make[2]: *** [R] Error 2 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Edoardo/r-3.1.2/src/unix' > make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Edoardo/r-3.1.2/src' > make: *** [R] Error 1 > > > I am not an expert programmer and would appreciate some help. My final > objective is to install R as shared library in order to use RHIPE. > Thanks > > Edoardo > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel