Congratulations. Few have made it so far ;-)

Chuck White wrote:
> I have successfully compiled rpy2 2.0.6 on windows. Here are the
> final steps:
> 
> [1] install msys (MSYS-1.0.11-rc-1) and mingw32 (MinGW-5.1.4) and add
> to path.

Installing the R tools can also take care of it.
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/

> [2] install Python binaries from python.org and NOT the activestate
> version

One more "gotcha" when building on win32. Thanks.

> [3] In <python root>\Lib\distutils (a) put a files called
> "distutils.cfg" which contains ===================== [build] compiler
> = mingw32 =====================

Or use the switch
--compiler=mingw32

> (b) change line 278 in unixcompiler.py compiler =
> "gcc"#os.path.basename(sysconfig.get_config_var("CC"))

Yes, this or the workaround sent earlier to the list.
This is a bug in the Python lib, and it is still unresolved for 
Python-2.6.2 (http://bugs.python.org/issue2437)

> [4] command line: python setup.py bdist_wininst
> 
> rpy2-2.0.6
> 
> [1] added to rinterface.h extern uintptr_t R_CStackLimit; /* C stack
> limit */ extern int R_SignalHandlers; extern Rboolean R_Interactive;

Or work from R-2.9 sources, or snatch Rinterface.h from their include/ 
directory and add it to the include directory of your binary R install.

> ------------------------ Took the longest time to figure out that
> step 2 was the problem.  I now have rpy2-2.0.6.win32-py2.5.exe and
> rpy2-2.0.6.win32-py2.6.exe. Please send me an e-mail if you need the
> 2.5 build.

If requests, it can also be added to the SourceForge download page.



L.

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