[igraph] Building Package under Windows and Cygwin

[Vincent Matossian]

Hi,

 

This is my first post to the list and I'd like to thank Gabor Csardi for making igraph available to the world, it's a truly fantastic package and the R port is just perfect to test out some ideas on large graphs quickly.

 

I am having trouble building the R igraph package from source under windows/cygwin, I realize that my problem isn't igraph specific but since this is the only package I'm really interested in I thought I would give it a try on this list.

 

After failing at using Cygwin's Perl port I installed ActivePerl and have since gotten the R igraph sources to generate a .tar.gz but not a .zip (although there seems to be no building per se as there's no mention of gcc and it seems to just targz the whole directory), here's a snippet where igraph_pkg is the directory of igraph R sources as provided on igraph's webiste :

 

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C:\igraph>Rcmd build igraph_pkg
* checking for file 'igraph_pkg/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'igraph_pkg':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* removing junk files
* checking for LF line-endings in source files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building 'igraph_pkg_0.2.1.tar.gz'

 

C:\igraph>Rcmd build --binary igraph_pkg
* checking for file 'igraph_pkg/DESCRIPTION' ... OK
* preparing 'igraph_pkg':
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* cleaning src
* removing junk files
* checking for LF line-endings in source files
* checking for empty or unneeded directories
* building binary distribution
 WARNING
* some HTML links may not be found

 

Using auto-selected zip options ' igraph_pkg-HELP=ziponly'
c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg:118: *** target pattern contains no
`%'.  Stop.
make: *** [pkg-igraph_pkg] Error 2
*** Installation of igraph_pkg failed ***

 

Removing 'c:/TEMP/Rinst108494775/igraph_pkg'
 ERROR
* installation failed

C:\igraph>Rcmd INSTALL igraph_pkg_0.2.1.tar.gz

 

c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0/src/gnuwin32/MakePkg:118: *** target pattern contains no
`%'.  Stop.
make: *** [pkg-igraph_pkg] Error 2
*** Installation of igraph_pkg failed ***

 

Removing 'c:/PROGRA~1/R/R-24~1.0/library/igraph_pkg'

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This "target pattern contains no `%' " is THE show stopper

 

Again, this is using R-2.4.0, cygwin, ActivePerl 5, my PATH includes cygwin, perl\bin, and mingw. I have also tried using R-2.3.1 with the same results.

 

Any/every help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

While I know that I don't need to recompile the sources to install the original igraph on windows, I need to modify/add some functionalities to igraph and would like to keep the R port rather than working  in C.

 

Thanks!

 

Vincent