From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Oct 13 14:44:58 2005
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:44:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] Building R on Windows
In-Reply-To: <434E54BA.6050702@lindaspaces.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0510131344130.15462-100000@toucan.stats>

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Jennifer Lai wrote:

> Hi,
>   I"m a newbie on building R on Windows. I followed the instructions
> cited here,
> http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/ to build R-2.2.0.
> Everything works fine up till when package base needs to be compiled.
> here is the error message,
>
> ---------- Making package base ------------
>  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
>        shared library 'tools' not found
> Execution halted
> make[4]: *** [frontmatter] Error 1
> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [pkg-base] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Has anyone seen this error message before? Where can I find shared
> library tools?

It was built at the bootstrapping phase, or should have been.

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[Rd] Building R on Windows
Prof Brian Ripley