Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-04 Thread Seth Falcon
Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross > compiling if you have Windows available? And why should I run R > under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if I have like Linux, > there is no reason to run R under wine. One use-case

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Sean Davis
Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 8/2/2006 6:05 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >>Uwe Ligges wrote: >> >> >>>I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross >>>compiling if you have Windows available? >>>And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if >>>I have like

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 8/2/2006 6:05 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Uwe Ligges wrote: > >> I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross >> compiling if you have Windows available? >> And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if >> I have like Linux, there is no reason to r

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Uwe Ligges wrote: > > I cannot imagine: Why should one want to perform difficult cross > compiling if you have Windows available? > And why should I run R under wine? If I like Windows, I use Windows, if > I have like Linux, there is no reason to run R under wine. *You* cannot imagine. I am a

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >>This is make-specific. It is true for GNU make, but not for BSD-like >>makes (and you can also cross-compile from FreeBSD and Solaris x86). > > > I know it is very possibly GNU make specific - > but that section in R/src/gnuwin32/README.pack

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This is make-specific. It is true for GNU make, but not for BSD-like > makes (and you can also cross-compile from FreeBSD and Solaris x86). I know it is very possibly GNU make specific - but that section in R/src/gnuwin32/README.package specifically says "Cross-buildin

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-02 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >> >>> Had some fun today, and thought it might be a good idea to share >>> and possibly for inclusion to R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages . >> >> >> Edit MkRules to set BUILD=CROSS and the appropriate pat

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-08-01 Thread Hin-Tak Leung
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> Had some fun today, and thought it might be a good idea to share >> and possibly for inclusion to R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages . > > [...] > >> Cross-compiling: The instruction in R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages >> essen

Re: [Rd] building windows packages under wine/linux and cross-compiling.

2006-07-31 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Had some fun today, and thought it might be a good idea to share > and possibly for inclusion to R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages . [...] > Cross-compiling: The instruction in R/src/gnuwin32/README.packages > essentially works, with one missing detail: