Hi,
I'm maintaining randtoolbox package on CRAN and I wonder how to do
a windows config file? I need to test SSE2 instructions support as
well as inttypes.h library check.
Currently I use the trick of 'foreign' package, i.e. I have
config.win file with
cp -p src/config.h.win src/config.h
and config.h.win was written manually from config.h.in. There is
no test at all on windows.
In 'writing r extension' on this topic, we find
"
You should bear in mind that the con?gure script may well not work
on Windows systems
(this seems normally to be the case for those generated by
Autoconf, although simple shell scripts
do work). If your package is to be made publicly available, please
give enough information for a
user on a non-Unix platform to con?gure it manually, or provide a
?configure.win? script to be
used on that platform. (Optionally, there can be a
?cleanup.win? script as well. Both should
be shell scripts to be executed by ash, which is a minimal version
of Bourne-style sh.)
"
Which tool do I need to write config script on windows? Do I need
an autoconf-cygwin solution? ( http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_242.html#SEC242
) or just a port of autoconf available on sourceforge?
I think most configure scripts on Windows were written using a text
editor, i.e. by hand. Windows systems are pretty consistent, so the
kinds of tests and searches that you need to do on *nix aren't
needed. You can assume that the Rtools are installed, but don't rely
on anything else. We're unlikely to drop tools from that collection,
so this advice should last quite a while.
Duncan Murdoch
Thanks in advance
Christophe
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