[Rd] Problems with Windows Cross compile

[Jun Yan]

I've seen that error before. It has to do with the setup of R_EXE. A 
current linux R is required. The following order worked for me:

make linuxR
make LinuxFresh=YES mkrules
make R


Jun

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Warnes, Gregory R wrote:

>
> Well, I'm finally getting around to setting up a cross-compiler for Windows on my local Linux box.   I'm using the Yan & Rossini's docuimentation and the latest 'http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Makefile-rcb' , which is working of the R-2.2.0 sources.
>
> After discovering that "cp -p" doesn't work on the filesystem I'm using and removing the '-p's in the R makefiles using perl, I've gotten things to run pretty far through.  Unfortunately, I get stopped by this error when building the base packages:
>
> 	writing help indices for package: base tools utils grDevices graphics stats datasets methods grid splines stats4 tcltk
>
> 	---------- Making package base ------------
> 	  adding build stamp to DESCRIPTION
> 	  installing inst files
> 	  installing indices
> 	Error in get(x, envir, mode, inherits) : variable "win.packages.html" was not found
> 	Execution halted
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Greg
>
> Gregory R. Warnes, Ph.D.
> Associate Director, Non-Clinical Statistics
> Pfizer Global Research and Development
>
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