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Appendix C Platform notes
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This section provides some notes on building R on different Unix-alike
platforms.  These notes are based on tests run on one or two systems in
each case with particular sets of compilers and support libraries.
Success in building R depends on the proper installation and functioning
of support software; your results may differ if you have other versions
of compilers and support libraries.

   Older versions of this manual (for R < 2.10.0) contain notes on
platforms such as HP-UX, IRIX and Alpha/OSF1 for which we have had no
recent reports.

   C macros to select particular platforms can be tricky to track down
(there is a fair amount of misinformation on the Web).  The Wiki
(currently) at <http://sourceforge.net/p/predef/wiki/Home/> can be
helpful.  The R sources have used (often in included software under
'src/extra')
     AIX: _AIX
     Cygwin: __CYGWIN__
     FreeBSD: __FreeBSD__
     HP-UX: __hpux__, __hpux
     IRIX: sgi, __sgi
     Linux: __linux__
     macOS: __APPLE__
     NetBSD: __NetBSD__
     OpenBSD: __OpenBSD__
     Solaris: __sun, sun
     Windows: _WIN32, _WIN64

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