Re: [Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu

2009-04-14 Thread Harry Southworth
Thanks to everyone who responded. I should now have enough options to make progress. The Windows tools have been updated since the last time i tried, so I'll have another go. I noticed the 2.6.0/2.7.1 discrepancy, updated everything, and found it was still there. Since the problem I'm having seem

Re: [Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu

2009-04-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Harry, On 14 April 2009 at 18:24, Harry Southworth wrote: | I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and R 2.7.1. ^^^ [ You can also get R 2.8.1 for free, see the R FAQ and search Ubuntu, or go directly to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu

Re: [Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu

2009-04-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Apr 14, 2009, at 15:20 , Harry Southworth wrote: I'm new to building packages that have source code and I didn't know about that site. In any event, it is an experimental private build for testing, and it is more convenient for me to do most of the testing in a Windows environment. I've spen

Re: [Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu

2009-04-14 Thread Harry Southworth
I'm new to building packages that have source code and I didn't know about that site. In any event, it is an experimental private build for testing, and it is more convenient for me to do most of the testing in a Windows environment. I've spent a lot of time failing to build from source on Windows,

Re: [Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu

2009-04-14 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
Is there any particular reason why you are doing this, instead of just using http://win-builder.r-project.org/ After that server went online, I see little (no) need for cross- compilation, I must say. Kasper On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:24 , Harry Southworth wrote: I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intre

[Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu

2009-04-14 Thread Harry Southworth
I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and R 2.7.1. I've built a package from source (a modified version of gbm) and it contains some C++ code. I now want to cross-compile it to get a Windows version. I installed R using sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base sudo apt-get instal