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Notes for Windows Maintainers
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1) fixed/h/config.h can 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.  (You do need /bin/sh, which cygwin
might mount for you.)  Then with the R sources in /R/rw1060, I used in
/TEMP/R (any other directory will do, except the sources)

/R/rw1060/configure --build=i386-pc-mingw32

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

 - it found R_PRINTCMD = lpr on my system, but that is not used under 
   Windows, so the actual setting is irrelevant.

 - watch out for local features: e.g. I have libz installed in my
   mingw compiler system.

 - watch out for versions of the header files. <strings.h> is in
   mingw-runtime-1.2 and later, but not in the Mingw-1.1 bundle.


BDR 2002-04-15