On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:08 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 11/30/2005 11:02 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote: > > 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. > > Why not just try it? If you don't compile anything, you shouldn't need > the compilers set up, for example. You'll definitely need GNU Make and > zip/unzip and Perl, but you probably already have those. > > Duncan Murdoch
Ah, looks like I spoke too soon, as replies from Prof. Ripley and Marc Schwartz indicate that I can just zip up the installed version of my package on Linux if I just have R code. The specific reference to zipping the installed package is the key. I was originally thinking whether R CMD build etc. on my Linux system could be used to create a windows binary. Zipping the installed package up is easy and will suffice until I get time to set-up the other tools. Thank you Duncan, Prof. Ripley and Marc for your ideas and suggestions. All the best, G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% 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
