Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-04 Thread Seth Falcon
Uwe Ligges [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross compiling if you have Windows available? And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if I have like Linux, there is no reason to run R under wine. One use-case for

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Had some fun today, and thought it might be a good idea to share and possibly for inclusion to R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages . snipped Edit MkRules to set BUILD=CROSS and the appropriate paths

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: This is make-specific. It is true for GNU make, but not for BSD-like makes (and you can also cross-compile from FreeBSD and Solaris x86). I know it is very possibly GNU make specific - but that section in R/src/gnuwin32/README.package specifically says Cross-building

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Prof Brian Ripley wrote: This is make-specific. It is true for GNU make, but not for BSD-like makes (and you can also cross-compile from FreeBSD and Solaris x86). I know it is very possibly GNU make specific - but that section in R/src/gnuwin32/README.package

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Uwe Ligges wrote: snipped I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross compiling if you have Windows available? And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if I have like Linux, there is no reason to run R under wine. *You* cannot imagine. I

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/2/2006 6:05 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Uwe Ligges wrote: snipped I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross compiling if you have Windows available? And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if I have like Linux, there is no reason to run

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Sean Davis
Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 8/2/2006 6:05 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Uwe Ligges wrote: snipped I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross compiling if you have Windows available? And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if I have like Linux, there

[Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-07-31 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Had some fun today, and thought it might be a good idea to share and possibly for inclusion to R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages . Wine/linux : while R, ActiveState Perl, mingw all works alright under wine, the blocking issue is Rtool's cygwin dependency. forking (as much of make and sh is forking

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-07-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: Had some fun today, and thought it might be a good idea to share and possibly for inclusion to R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages . [...] Cross-compiling: The instruction in R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages essentially works, with one missing detail: