I have been told (off-list) that cross-compiling c++ no longer works. Because of this, the c++ stuff is left out from the new tar ball.
And I have also been corrected: most of the work on the cross- compiling tools were in fact done by Brian Ripley. Kasper On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, A.J. Rossini wrote: > Technically, "Jun Yan, based on work and documentation most likely by > Brian Ripley, with Tony prodding Jun". Though I'm sure even that > would be corrected. > > Sorry, no clue, as I'm not using R nor Linux at work these days. I'm > sure someone else knows. > > On 10/18/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> We have been cross-compiling windows packages under Linux using the >> excellent Makefile and instructions by Tony Rossini and Jun Yan. >> Specifically we have been cross-compiling c++ code and it used to >> work. >> >> Now the minGW tools located at www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools have >> changed from version 4 to version 5, and our cross-compiling have >> stopped working. >> >> Inspecting the tarball we are unable to find the header files for c+ >> +, so it seems that c++ support has been left out. Has this been >> changed intentionally, because it used to work and in addition c++ is >> included in the list of "standard" minGW packages listed on >> www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools >> >> If the change is intentionally, should be just get the c++ code from >> minGW and merge it into the tarball? >> >> Kasper and Jim >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> >> > > > -- > best, > -tony > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Muttenz, Switzerland. > "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which > we can easily > roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
