[Rd] building r packages for windows on a mac/linux

[Vinh Nguyen]

thank you professor Ligges for the build farm.  i was aware of it.
however, i'm just trying to learn how to build things myself.  thanks
to hin-tak, i did successfully cross build on R 2.8 on my mac.  i will
try to cross build r 2.9 next based on hin-tak's suggestions.

i don't know the exact reason why the R core team dropped support for
the cross build, but if it's because of the perceived 'lack of
demand,' i'd just like to note and show there is some demand (me), so
hopefully support will be back.

thanks.
vinh
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Uwe
Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> For those who have no confidential packages without license issues, want to
> build a Windows binary but do not have Windows available: please also note
> the service provided at
> http://win-builder.r-project.org/
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
>>
>> --- On Thu, 3/9/09, Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> hmmm....tried building R-2.8.0 on my
>>> mac, didn't work.  i think it got
>>> the very end before failing:
>>> i386-mingw32-windres --preprocessor="i386-mingw32-gcc -E
>>> -xc
>>> -DRC_INVOKED" -I
>>> /Users/vinh/Downloads/Rwin/R-2.8.0/include  -I -i
>>> methods_res.rc -o methods_res.o
>>> i386-mingw32-gcc  -std=gnu99  -shared -s  -o
>>> methods.dll methods.def
>>> class_support.o do_substitute_direct.o init.o
>>> methods_list_dispatch.o
>>> slot.o tests.o methods_res.o -L/Users/vinh/Downloads/Rwin/R-2.8.0/bin
>>>   -lR
>>>  ... DLL made
>>>  installing DLL
>>>  collecting R files
>>>  preparing package methods for lazy loading
>>>  dumping R code in package `methods'
>>> cp:
>>>
>>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/methods/libs/methods.so:
>>> No such file or directory
>>> make[4]: ***
>>> [/Users/vinh/Downloads/Rwin/R-2.8.0/library/methods/R/methods.rdb]
>>> Error 1
>>> make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
>>> make[2]: *** [pkg-methods] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [rpackage] Error 1
>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> It is probably wiser to use the last of 2.8 (i.e. 2.8.1patched)
>>
>> That seems to be buggy - anyhow, I said to build win32 R package you need
>> to have the win32 R.dll, I don't mean you have to build it yourself. You can
>> just take it out of the official win32 R installer.
>>
>>> if i go to bin/R.exe, my wine opens R fine.  so i
>>> think this is OK.
>>> my ultimate goal would be to build a package for
>>> windows.  looking
>>> through the admin file, i don't understand how i would do
>>> this (even
>>> if i didn't get that previous error).  could u kindly
>>> point me in the
>>> direction of how to do this?  make what?
>>
>> The instruction for cross-compiling R packages is in a file called
>> "README.packages" or some such under src/gnuwin32 . The file was removed in
>> R 2.9.x (as the content is no longer supported).
>>
>> BTW, you have not shown your affiliation nor the reason why you want to go
>> this way - and I am reluctant to do one-on-one hand-holding on annonymity.
>> So please keep the CC:, or arrange for commercial consultancy.
>>
>>
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