[R-pkg-devel] Preparing for R 4.2.0 and UCRT via MXE builds

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Is anybody else looking into trying to come to terms with MXE for
cross-compiling for UCRT for R 4.2.0 and its updated Windows toolchain?  I
have been bugging Tomas in private email for a bit and figured it might be
useful to spread the load a little.

Is anybody else looking into this?  Any interest in pooling resources around
some virtual meeting place? New mailing list? Or an ad-hoc slack (or channel
on existing one)?

Dirk

PS My current status:
- MXE installed on Ubuntu as cross-compilation. Pretty straightforward.
- One initial test build (using cmake) failed:
     fatal error: Windows.h: No such file or directory
- Another of a known cmake-using library (nlopt) succeeded. Good. 

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