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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 (cmp, ln, rmdir, tr, uname, uniq ...),
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/rw1070, I used in /TEMP/R (any other directory will do, except
the sources)

/R/rw1070/configure --build=i386-pc-mingw32

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,
<strings.h> was in mingw-runtime-1.2 and later, but not in the
Mingw-1.1 bundle.

BDR 2002-04-15, 2003-01-09