[Rd] some queries over cross-compilation

[Uwe Ligges]

Cross compiling support has been dropped.
If you want to have it, please patch the sources yourself.
If you just want to get a Windows biunary of one package and you do not 
have a Windows machine around, you may use the service at:
http://win-builder.r-project.org/

Uwe Ligges



On 26.04.2010 12:55, jing hua zhao wrote:
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> Dear R developers,
>
> I ran into some problems that I wish to get around.
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> Following the recommendation from "Building R for Windows" (Duncan's site) I was able to obtain some files from Brian's site for relevant tools for cross-compile. Initially I was able to cross-compile Windows packages happily with the setup I had based on R 2.7.0  (essentially as described in cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/cross-build.pdf) but got it entirely muddled up with R 2.11.0. I found this was actually not officially supported from R 2.9.0.
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> I then found I cannot even remove the Tcl directory (8-5-8) even I move or rename it. Is there a way to do that?
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> I wonder if there is an equivalent of i586-mingw32 (x86_64-w64-mingw32-) or I have to customise that myself. I got errors at various stage and at one time  i586-mingw32-nm could not recognise ch2inv.o that was generated. Perhaps I would get some headway with alternative. Perhaps I would need also reestablish my R 2.7.0 cross-compile to see if my initial build was just a fake.
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Jing Hua
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