It's due to a change in the way dlltool is called. Easy to fix (I've just done so): add -k to the DLLTOOL line in MkChmDll.
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I encountered this problem just before the 2.2.0 release. Then it went > away for a while and came back at the beginning of this week. Here is what > is happening (I am on Win2000 machine with all the necessary tools > installed). > > I compile R-devel and R-patched trees every couple of days and install them > in separate directories. Everything seems to work fine for R-patched. > Compilation of R-devel also goes without a problem, but when I try to use > help with the chmhelp=TRUE I get two errors: > 1. A separate error windows pops up saying: "The procedure entry point > [EMAIL PROTECTED] could not be located in the dynamic link library hhctrl.ocx" > 2. I get the following on the R console > Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : > unable to load shared library > 'C:/local/R/rw230/bin/Rchtml.dll': > LoadLibrary failure: The specified procedure could not be found. > > I tried to track down the problem but I do not know much about CHTML. Here > is what I discovered: > 1. The problem is with the Rchtml.dll (as 2 above suggests). If I simply > replace the Rchtml.dll in the bin directory of version 2.3 with Rchtml.dll > from version 2.2 everything works fine!! > 2. Rchtml.dll is being built in the .../R-devel/src/gnuwin32/help folder. > The contents of this folder is: > Makefile libhhctrl.a Rchtml.c hhctrl.def Rchtml.o > MkChmDll logo.bmp Rchm.css Rchtml.dll* R.stp > This is identical to the corresponding help folder in R-patched. > 3. All files in the help folders in both versions are identical (under > diff) except: libhhctrl.a and Rchtml.dll > 4. Doing ar -t libhhctrl.a produces: > dclact.o > dclach.o > dclacs00000.o > in R-dvel but > dquxbt.o > dquxbh.o > dquxbs00000.o > in R-patched. > 5. The make process output for building libhhctrl.a and Rchtml.dll is > identical: > ... > echo EXPORTS > hhctrl.def > echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> hhctrl.def > dlltool --as as -k --dllname hhctrl.ocx --def hhctrl.def > --output-lib libhhctrl.a > gcc -I "C:/Program Files/HTML Help Workshop/include" -c Rchtml.c -o > Rchtml.o > gcc --shared -s -o Rchtml.dll Rchtml.def Rchtml.o -L. -lhhctrl > cp Rchtml.dll ../../../bin/Rchtml.dll > ... > > I am not sure if this is a problem with my particular setup (version of > hhctrl.ocx perhaps, which BTW is 5.2.3790.309) or a bug in R-devel. Again, > I do not understand the CHTML building process at all, so it is hard for me > to figure out what is going on. > > Any help will be appreciated, > > Andy > > > __________________________________ > Andy Jaworski > 518-1-01 > Process Laboratory > 3M Corporate Research Laboratory > ----- > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (651) 733-6092 > Fax: (651) 736-3122 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
