[Rd] cross tools (was Re: wine and build difference between R.2.4.0 and R 2.4.1 windows binaries?)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:

[...]

> Oh yes, I meant the i386 cross-tool *you* provided on x86_64 .
> BTW, there are a bunch of ready-made cross tool rpm's on
> http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/

Like all other sets I know of they appear to lack g77 and so are 
inadequate to make R.  (Also, their mingw-runtime is well outdated.)

The xmingw-build scripts now available on www.mingw.org make building a 
cross-compiler almost straightforward (although I suspect the important 
changes are to the source tarballs).

> linked from wine's dev-guide:
> http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/winedev-guide/cross-compiling-tests

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