[Rd] Building a windows binary of a package on Linux

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 11:08 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 11/30/2005 11:02 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 10:46 -0500, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >> On 11/30/2005 9:33 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> >> > Dear List,
> >> > 
> >> > Can I build a binary package (.zip) for Windows on my Linux machine from
> >> > my package sources? There is no C, C++, Fortran code involved, just
> >> > plain ol' R. I read through the article by Jun and Rossini, but (on
> >> > first reading) this seems more targeted at building a Windows version of
> >> > R and Windows package binaries that contain C, C++, Fortran code that
> >> > needs to be compiled.
> >> 
> >> You should be able to.  Instructions are in the README.packages file in 
> >> R_HOME/src/gnuwin32.  I don't know if you've got that file if you 
> >> installed a pre-built R, but it's in the source tarball (and in 
> >> https://svn.r-project.org/R.  Choose a tag subdirectory for a release 
> >> version, or the trunk for the latest and greatest.  You'll probably get 
> >> the same instructions on all recent ones, they don't change much.
> >> 
> >> Duncan Murdoch
> > 
> > My reading of README.packages would indicate that I need to download the
> > cross-compile tools as outlined in that README and in the Jun and
> > Rossini article in R News. I was wondering if it could be done without
> > all this extra stuff - but it appears not.
> > 
> > Thanks, Duncan for the prompt reply, I'll set aside some time to set
> > this up as described in the docs.
> 
> Why not just try it?  If you don't compile anything, you shouldn't need 
> the compilers set up, for example.  You'll definitely need GNU Make and 
> zip/unzip and Perl, but you probably already have those.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch

Ah, looks like I spoke too soon, as replies from Prof. Ripley and Marc
Schwartz indicate that I can just zip up the installed version of my
package on Linux if I just have R code. The specific reference to
zipping the installed package is the key. I was originally thinking
whether R CMD build etc. on my Linux system could be used to create a
windows binary. Zipping the installed package up is easy and will
suffice until I get time to set-up the other tools.

Thank you Duncan, Prof. Ripley and Marc for your ideas and suggestions.

All the best,

G

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