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Separate packages per windows subarch in repository

5 messages · Uwe Ligges, Jeroen Ooms, Iago Mosqueira

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Hi,

I maintain a repository of R packages, where some of them contain
executable binaries. I need to separate those compiled for 32 and 64 bit in
Windows, but I could not how to do any of the two options I can think of:

1. Have subarch subfolders in PKG/inst/bin to that the right one is
installed or called

2. Have separate versions of the packages accessible in the same repository
for each subarch, e.g. bin/windows/contrib/3.4/i386

Could I do thew first via a configure.win script?

Is the second option possible?

Any pointers to the documentation I might have missed would be appreciated.

Best regards,


Iago
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On 20.07.2017 13:55, Iago Mosqueira wrote:
Use 1., i.e. the same approach as for dlls, where we have the two 
subdirs for the two archs.

I think this will be difficult in Makevars.win when you build the 
executable binaries as part of the installation process, hence I think 
an appropriate Makefile.win should be used.

Best,
Uwe Ligges
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Iago Mosqueira
<iago.mosqueira at gmail.com> wrote:
Have a look at the antiword package. It has a simple makevars which
builds antiword$(WIN) executable which is just the 'antiword' on unix,
and antiword32.exe + antiword64.exe on multiarch windows.
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Thanks. I did not explain clearly that the executables are not compiled
during package compilation, apologies. They are compiled beforehand, as
they use ADMB (AD Model Builder) and placed in inst/bin/windows.

I assume Makefile.win could copy the appropriate one from PKG/bin/$arch to
PKG/inst/bin/ so that the right one is installed?

Cheers,


Iago

On 20 July 2017 at 15:38, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

  
  
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I have something working using configure.win, but this changes the
executable when the windows version of the package is created via R CMD
INSTALL --build.

Could there be any way to do so at installation time from the binary
package?

Thanks,


Iago
On 20 July 2017 at 16:21, Iago Mosqueira <iago.mosqueira at gmail.com> wrote: