On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:46 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/30/2005 9:33 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > Can I build a binary package (.zip) for Windows on my Linux machine from > > my package sources? There is no C, C++, Fortran code involved, just > > plain ol' R. I read through the article by Jun and Rossini, but (on > > first reading) this seems more targeted at building a Windows version of > > R and Windows package binaries that contain C, C++, Fortran code that > > needs to be compiled. > > You should be able to. Instructions are in the README.packages file in > R_HOME/src/gnuwin32. I don't know if you've got that file if you > installed a pre-built R, but it's in the source tarball (and in > https://svn.r-project.org/R. Choose a tag subdirectory for a release > version, or the trunk for the latest and greatest. You'll probably get > the same instructions on all recent ones, they don't change much. > > Duncan Murdoch
My reading of README.packages would indicate that I need to download the cross-compile tools as outlined in that README and in the Jun and Rossini article in R News. I was wondering if it could be done without all this extra stuff - but it appears not. Thanks, Duncan for the prompt reply, I'll set aside some time to set this up as described in the docs. All the best, Gav -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
