From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Tue Apr 14 22:05:45 2009
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:05:45 -0400
Subject: [Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 15:20 , Harry Southworth wrote:

> I'm new to building packages that have source code and I didn't know
> about that site. In any event, it is an experimental private build for
> testing, and it is more convenient for me to do most of the testing in
> a Windows environment. I've spent a lot of time failing to build from
> source on Windows,

Hmm.. it's should be really easy those days - just get the  
Rtools29.exe from
http://www.murdoch-sutherland.com/Rtools/
and you should be set ...

Cheers,
Simon


> and would prefer not to name myself as maintainer
> of someone else's package.
>
> But, since it looks like that might be the easiest route, I've just
> let the maintainer know what I'm up to and asked if he's fine with me
> doing that.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Tobias Verbeke
> <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.be> wrote:
>> Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any particular reason why you are doing this, instead of  
>>> just
>>> using
>>>  http://win-builder.r-project.org/
>>> After that server went online, I see little (no) need for
>>> cross-compilation, I must say.
>>
>> That service is very useful indeed, but I can imagine
>> situations where one would be better off with cross-compiling
>> e.g. when compiling (on a customer's request) Windows versions
>> of packages that contain sensitive customer data.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tobias
>>
>>> On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:24 , Harry Southworth wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and R 2.7.1.
>>>>
>>>> I've built a package from source (a modified version of gbm) and it
>>>> contains some C++ code.  I now want to cross-compile it to get a
>>>> Windows version.
>>>>
>>>> I installed R using
>>>>  sudo apt-get update
>>>>  sudo apt-get install r-base
>>>>  sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
>>>>
>>>> So far as I can tell, I've also followed all the instructions in  
>>>> the
>>>> guide to cross-compiling by Yan and Rossini.
>>>>
>>>> When I try to cross-compile I get a load of errors, apparently  
>>>> due to
>>>> R.h (and possibly other things) not being found:
>>>>
>>>> [snip - everything fine up to here]
>>>> i586-mingw32-g++ -isystem
>>>> /home/harry/RLibrary/forWindows/cross-tools/i586-mingw32/include
>>>> -I/home/harry/RLibrary/forWindows/WinR/R-2.6.0/include    -Wall -O2
>>>> -c adaboost.cpp -o adaboost.o
>>>> In file included from dataset.h:20,
>>>>                from node_terminal.h:21,
>>>>                from distribution.h:20,
>>>>                from adaboost.h:20,
>>>>                from adaboost.cpp:3:
>>>> buildinfo.h:8:19: R.h: No such file or directory
>>>> adaboost.cpp: In member function `virtual GBMRESULT
>>>> CAdaBoost::ComputeWorkingResponse(double*, double*, double*,  
>>>> double*,
>>>> double*, double*, bool*, long unsigned int, int)':
>>>> adaboost.cpp:33: error: `exp' was not declared in this scope
>>>> adaboost.cpp:33: warning: unused variable 'exp'
>>>> [etc. - snip]
>>>>
>>>> I'd be grateful if anyone can suggest what I might be doing wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> Harry
>>>>
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[Rd] Problem cross-compiling on Ubuntu
Simon Urbanek