[Bioc-devel] Incorrect EBImage_3.6.0.zip URL for Windows 64-bit binary online?

[Gregoire Pau]

Hi Henrik, Dan,

 > BTW, has anyone (including non-Bioc admins) tried/succeeded to build
 > the 64-bit Windows version?

Yes. Some users reported me that they managed to install EBImage on 
64-bit windows machines. Installation issues, if any, are expected to 
come from the dependent system libraries gtk+ and ImageMagick.

Cheers,

Greg
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Gregoire Pau
EMBL Research officer
http://www.embl.de/~gpau/

On 16/11/2010 17:01, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Dan Tenenbaum<dtenenba at fhcrc.org>  wrote:
>> Hello Henrik,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Henrik Bengtsson<hb at biostat.ucsf.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> According to
>>>
>>>   http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/EBImage.html
>>>
>>> the EBImage package is available for download as this:
>>>
>>> Package Downloads:
>>> Package source  EBImage_3.6.0.tar.gz
>>> Windows 32-bit binary   EBImage_3.6.0.zip
>>> Windows 64-bit binary   EBImage_3.6.0.zip
>>> MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) binary   Not Available
>>>
>>> However, if you download the EBImage_3.6.0.zip file for Windows 64-bit
>>> binary, it is for i386 (and not 'arch=x64').  Should that URL be
>>> removed?
>>>
>>
>> This has been on my list to get to for some time--I will take care of it
>> today.
>> By the way, how did you get to that page?
>
> Using a by now rather well known search engine and searching for
> "Bioconductor release EBImage".  "Bioconductor EBImage" leads you to
> the developers page.
>
>> There is a new package page:
>> http://www.bioconductor.org/help/bioc-views/release/bioc/html/EBImage.html
>> This page has the same issue--except there is only one Windows binary
>> available, incorrectly labelled as for both 32 and 64-bit.
>
> BTW, has anyone (including non-Bioc admins) tried/succeeded to build
> the 64-bit Windows version?
>
> Thxs
>
> Henrik
>
>> Dan
>>
>>>
>>> Note that biocLite("EBImage") correctly reports the package as not
>>> being available.
>>>
>>> /Henrik
>>>
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>>
>>
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