[Rd] cross-compiling tools

[A.J. Rossini]

Though thanks to the obtuseness of the documentation, the makefile Jun
wrote has helped a great deal of folks.

While some have been appreciative, certain other folks have only
bothered to make snide, hostile remarks and not bothered to be polite
enough to suggest changes that might have prevented questions arising,
as they prefer to demonstrate to the world that no one else can
improve on their "satisfactory" work.

On 10/20/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <khansen at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I have been told (off-list) that cross-compiling c++ no longer works.
> Because of this, the c++ stuff is left out from the new tar ball.
>
> And I have also been corrected: most of the work on the cross-
> compiling tools were in fact done by Brian Ripley.
>
> Kasper
>
> On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
> > 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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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > best,
> > -tony
> >
> > blindglobe at gmail.com
> > Muttenz, Switzerland.
> > "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which
> > we can easily
> > roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
> >
> >
>
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--
best,
-tony

blindglobe at gmail.com
Muttenz, Switzerland.
"Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily
roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).