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crossbuilding packages with mingw32

3 messages · Sébastien Bihorel, Douglas Bates

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Sébastien Bihorel
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Hi,

Does anybody have experience building windows packages in Debian?  I
think the mingw32 package is the ticket for it.  In the past, I've done
this using the procedure on the R News article (Building Microsoft
Windows versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux), but it seems it
should be possible with mingw32 directly.  Any tips on what to read?
Thanks.


Cheers,
Douglas Bates
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On Jan 23, 2008 5:21 PM, Sebastian P. Luque <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I would recommend using Uwe's win-builder site,
http://win-builder.r-project.org, to build a Windows binary version of
a package.  If you don't know what the win-builder site is, please do
check it out and avoid the need to install and work with the mingw32
package.

I find that the less contact I have with the Windows operating system,
the lower my blood pressure stays.

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:16 -0600,

        
"Douglas Bates" <bates at stat.wisc.edu> wrote:

        
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Thanks, duh! I should have remembered that, since I do use Uwe's FTP
site to make sure packages build well in Windows! -- guess I always only
look for the "Result: OK" line.

            

      
      
      
    

        
Likewise here...