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Notes for Windows Maintainers
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1) fixed/h/config.h can almost be made automatically.  Some of this
is achieved by overrides in the configure script.

You will need a few more tools (ln, pwd, tr, ...), and I put a cygwin
toolchain at the end of my path.  Then with the R sources in
/R/rw1050, I used in /TEMP/R (any other directory will do, except the
sources)

/R/rw1050/configure --build=i386-pc-mingw32

This ran fairly slowly, producing a src/include/config.h that differs only

 - missing the Windows-specific section at the end.
 - it found R_PRINTCMD = lpr on my system, but that is not used under Windows.
 - watch out for local features: e.g. I have libz installed in my
   mingw compiler system.

Note that HAVE_TIMES should be defined even though times() is not found:
it is used in R for the availabilty of timing.

BDR 2002-03-14