[R-pkg-devel] Anyone Know How To Setup Wine for Windows Testing?

[Neal Fultz]

If you don't mind multi-gig docker containers, this can be helpful:

https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine

It doesn't work with 64 bit versions of R as far as I could tell, but 32
bit did install and start correctly in a few clicks when I tried last year.





On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:56 AM J C Nash <profjcnash using gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure you want to try to run R etc. under Wine?
>
> - If you have Windows running, either directly or in a VM, you can run R
> there.
> - If you have Windows and want to run R under some other OS, then set up a
> VM
> e.g., Linux Mint, for that. I sometimes test R for Windows in a VirtualBox
> VM
> for Win10, but generally run in Linux Mint. I've also run R in some Linux
> VMs
> to test for specific dependencies in some distros.
>
> I rather doubt R will run very well in Linux under Wine. My experience
> with Wine
> is that a few apps (e.g. Irfanview) run well, but many give lots of
> trouble.
>
> JN
>
>
> On 2020-07-15 1:17 p.m., Steve Bronder wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a setup guide for getting R and Rtools 4.0 up and
> > running on Wine with the Windows Server 2008 R2 VM? Do other maintainers
> > with more knowhow think that would be useful for debugging purposes?
> >
> > I've been trying to test out some flto gcc things for windows by setting
> up
> > a local wine VM on my ubuntu box. Wine has an option for Windows Server
> > 2008 R2 (which I believe is the windows session CRAN uses?) If anyone has
> > done this before and knows of a guide somewhere that would be very
> helpful!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steve Bronder
> >
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