From imosqueira at suk.azti.es  Mon Oct 25 14:41:05 2004
From: imosqueira at suk.azti.es (Iago Mosqueira)
Date: Mon Oct 25 13:38:47 2004
Subject: [Rd] Cross compiling in R-2.0.0
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On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:12, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> More likely you are cross-compiling R to run under Windows.
Yes, but only with the intention of using the installation to compile
packages for windows.

> Who said you should `make R'?  That is not in the instructions in 
> src/gnuwin32/INSTALL.  If you do that you should get
I am using the cross-compiling instructions and Makefile that appeared
in some issue of R-News. The last step is indeed make R.

> So R_EXE is not defined.  Setting it is part of the instructions.
OK, it is now set.

> User error!  If you follow the instructions it does work, at least in an 
> English-speaking locale.

It is now failing when trying to compile the tcltk package.

Has anybody tried using the Yan and Rossini's Makefile in 2.0.0?

Thanks,


Iago


[Rd] Cross compiling in R-2.0.0
Iago Mosqueira