Dear Uwe, Thanks -- I also found Rtools11.exe work very well under my home PC with Windows Vista.
BW, Jing Hua > Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:04:32 +0200 > From: lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de > To: jinghuaz...@hotmail.com > CC: r-devel@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [Rd] some queries over cross-compilation > > Cross compiling support has been dropped. > If you want to have it, please patch the sources yourself. > If you just want to get a Windows biunary of one package and you do not > have a Windows machine around, you may use the service at: > http://win-builder.r-project.org/ > > Uwe Ligges > > > > On 26.04.2010 12:55, jing hua zhao wrote: > > > > Dear R developers, > > > > I ran into some problems that I wish to get around. > > > > Following the recommendation from "Building R for Windows" (Duncan's site) > > I was able to obtain some files from Brian's site for relevant tools for > > cross-compile. Initially I was able to cross-compile Windows packages > > happily with the setup I had based on R 2.7.0 (essentially as described in > > cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/cross-build.pdf) but got it entirely muddled > > up with R 2.11.0. I found this was actually not officially supported from R > > 2.9.0. > > > > I then found I cannot even remove the Tcl directory (8-5-8) even I move or > > rename it. Is there a way to do that? > > > > I wonder if there is an equivalent of i586-mingw32 (x86_64-w64-mingw32-) or > > I have to customise that myself. I got errors at various stage and at one > > time i586-mingw32-nm could not recognise ch2inv.o that was generated. > > Perhaps I would get some headway with alternative. Perhaps I would need > > also reestablish my R 2.7.0 cross-compile to see if my initial build was > > just a fake. > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > Jing Hua > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us > > now > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel _________________________________________________________________ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel