On 13/06/2014 11:10, Renaud Gaujoux wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to make install.packages install a source package by
compiling it on Unix, but skip compilation and use a pre-built windows
binary (shipped in exec/) if installing on Windows?
A 'pre-built windows binary' of what?
You can easily ship a DLL or .exe for use on Windows: just make use of
configure.win and/or Makefile.win. If you have a Makefile.win it will
override the normal procedures for directory src. OTOH, shipping
something in exec will be installed everwhere.
Watch out for sub-architectures: 'Windows' is in fact two platforms. We
have over the years seen a lot of problem with people shipping 64-bit
Windows binaries: 32-bit Windows does not recognize those.
The package should be installable on Windows machines that do not have
Rtools installed. This is to make the update process easier for users,
because the C++ code does not change often, meaning that I can just
send source packages built on Linux, with a binary executable built
once in a while on win-builder.
Note that this is for a package that is not meant for CRAN, so no
policy issue here.
Thank you.
Bests,
Renaud
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