[R-SIG-Win] Question about rtools provided shell

[Tim Keitt]

http://www.keittlab.org/

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Tim Keitt <tkeitt at utexas.edu> wrote:
> > I am trying to be clever (whether that's a good idea is for another
> thread
> > ;) and write an R script that downloads and builds the postgres libpq
> > library when its not installed. (The idea is to call this script during
> > source package installation.)
>
> We do exactly this in the RPostgres package:
> https://github.com/rstats-db/RPostgres . You want to check the
> src/Makevars.win file and tools/winlibs.R. Feel free to steal/copy
> whatever you need.
>

Nice to discover the prebuilt windows libs on github. Did not know about
that. I was pulling the full postgresql source and then building libpq in
the tree.

THK


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