R: Eclipse and cygwin

[Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>]

--- Mar 26/10/10, David Bo Jensen  ha scritto:

> I have installed Eclipse Helios
> Release on Windows 7.
> 
> But I also want to build, compile and link so I have also
> installed Cygwin 1.7.7
> 
> But I can still not build. One reason could be that I only
> chose the default settings which doesn't include compiler
> and 'make'.
> How do I do that? Can I start the setup again and then
> choose the missing part?

yes. The default installation is minimal and the full installation is HUGE, so you need to tailor the 
selection to your needs.

> 
> I have noticed that the unix commands are only avaible when
> I invoke a bash shell and not from cmd. Does that mean that
> Eclipse can't invoke make? If so, how and where do I change
> the settings.
> 

The cygwin path is available inside cygwin shells (like bash) 
but usually it is not added to the windows path.
If you need it you should add manually. 

> Is there a newsgroup for cygwin? If so what is the server
> name?

No. But you can read this mailing list as a newsgroup 
through the usual news.gmane.org


Regards
Marco





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