[Rd] Problems with Windows Cross compile

[Warnes, Gregory R]

Thanks, the default version of R here is 2.1.0, so that must have been the problem.  Everything is working now. 

-Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jun Yan [mailto:jyan at stat.uiowa.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 1:07 PM
> To: Warnes, Gregory R
> Cc: R-devel (E-mail); Anthony Rossini (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Problems with Windows Cross compile
> 
> 
> 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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