[Rd] cross-compiling tools

[A.J. Rossini]

Technically,  "Jun Yan, based on work and documentation most likely by
Brian Ripley, with Tony prodding Jun".  Though I'm sure even that
would be corrected.

Sorry, no clue, as I'm not using R nor Linux at work these days.  I'm
sure someone else knows.

On 10/18/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <khansen at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have been cross-compiling windows packages under Linux using the
> excellent Makefile and instructions by Tony Rossini and Jun Yan.
> Specifically we have been cross-compiling c++ code and it used to work.
>
> Now the minGW tools located at www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools have
> changed from version 4 to version 5, and our cross-compiling have
> stopped working.
>
> Inspecting the tarball we are unable to find the header files for c+
> +, so it seems that c++ support has been left out. Has this been
> changed intentionally, because it used to work and in addition c++ is
> included in the list of "standard" minGW packages listed on
> www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools
>
> If the change is intentionally, should be just get the c++ code from
> minGW and merge it into the tarball?
>
> Kasper and Jim
>
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