[Rd] cross-compiling tools

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

I have been told (off-list) that cross-compiling c++ no longer works.  
Because of this, the c++ stuff is left out from the new tar ball.

And I have also been corrected: most of the work on the cross- 
compiling tools were in fact done by Brian Ripley.

Kasper

On Oct 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> Technically,  "Jun Yan, based on work and documentation most likely by
> Brian Ripley, with Tony prodding Jun".  Though I'm sure even that
> would be corrected.
>
> Sorry, no clue, as I'm not using R nor Linux at work these days.  I'm
> sure someone else knows.
>
> On 10/18/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <khansen at stat.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We have been cross-compiling windows packages under Linux using the
>> excellent Makefile and instructions by Tony Rossini and Jun Yan.
>> Specifically we have been cross-compiling c++ code and it used to  
>> work.
>>
>> Now the minGW tools located at www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools have
>> changed from version 4 to version 5, and our cross-compiling have
>> stopped working.
>>
>> Inspecting the tarball we are unable to find the header files for c+
>> +, so it seems that c++ support has been left out. Has this been
>> changed intentionally, because it used to work and in addition c++ is
>> included in the list of "standard" minGW packages listed on
>> www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools
>>
>> If the change is intentionally, should be just get the c++ code from
>> minGW and merge it into the tarball?
>>
>> Kasper and Jim
>>
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>
>
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> -tony
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