[R-sig-Geo] rgdal 64bit Windows version?

[Rainer Hurling]

Am 25.01.2010 22:35 (UTC+1) schrieb Roger Bivand:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Rainer Hurling wrote:
>
>> Some days ago Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges announced an update to
>> MinGW-w64 builds for 64-bit Windows on R-devel at . This daily version
>> works really nice. But it is not fully applicable at this time because
>> of some missing packages.
>>
>> I am in particular interested in a 64-bit version of rgdal, which
>> depends on a 64-bit version of gdal(.dll). Is their anything known
>> about what is planned with this important part of spatial software?
>
> For this, a 64-bit MSYS is required. If someone who has a 64-bit Windows
> system can take the initiative on this, I would be very grateful - I
> have no access to any such system. Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges have been
> in touch with me on this, and so far have put it aside until packages
> without external dependencies are done. It really does depend on our
> community building PROJ.4, EXPAT, and GDAL from source under 64-bit MSYS
> on a Windows 64-bit system using the same build train as other w64
> packages, if we want it done.

Thanks, Roger and Edzer for answering.

I know of this procedure. I was only interested if there is something 
known about purposes of these projects (like a timeline or testing 
prereleases) so that the R community can build a 64-bit rgdal version in 
the near future.

I am only working with FreeBSD. Our staff members mostly use Windows, 
increasingly the 64-bit versions. I am asking for that people. 
Unfortunately we are not able to build our 64-bit windows versions for 
ourselves (administrated windows machines).

Rainer