Notes for Windows Maintainers ============================= 1) fixed/h/config.h can be made automatically. Some of this is achieved by overrides in the configure script. You will need a copy of sh.exe in /bin. Then with the R sources in /R/rw2000, I used in /TEMP/R (any other directory will do, except the sources) sh /R/rw2000/configure --build=i386-pc-mingw32 --with-readline=no --with-x=no --enable-utf8 This ran fairly slowly, producing a src/include/config.h that differs only in that - it found R_PRINTCMD = lpr on my system, but that is not used under Windows, so the actual setting is irrelevant. - It found libreadline, not used under Windows. Also, watch out for versions of the header files. For example, was in mingw-runtime-1.2 and later, but not in the Mingw-1.1 bundle. BDR 2002-04-15, 2003-02-10, 2004-06-28 2) The Makefiles for building a distribution have been reorganized. Now all of the decisions about what files go into the distributables are made in installer/Makefile; the decisions about which component of the setup program each file goes into are made in installer/JRins.pl. DJM 2003-02-25 3) Making Tcl/Tk. Get the Tcl/Tk sources (I used 8.4.5 when testing this). You need VC++6 and a Windows command-line window. Run "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Bin\VCVARS32.BAT" cd tcl8.4.x\win nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc release winhelp nmake -f makefile.vc install cd ..\..\tk8.4.x\win nmake -nologo -f makefile.vc TCLDIR=..\..\tcl8.4.x release winhelp nmake -f makefile.vc install Now copy /Program Files/Tcl to say /R/Tcl and (in any reasonable shell) cd /R/Tcl rm bin/tclpip84.dll bin/tclsh84.exe bin/wish.exe rm -rf lib/*.lib lib/tk8.4/demos lib/tk8.4/images cp .../tcl8.4.x/license.terms . BDR 2004-01-09