Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2008, Iago Mosqueira wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Am I right in thinking the cross-compilations tools, kindly maintained >> by Prof Ripley, are still waiting to be updated for 2.7.0? > > What is unclear about > > `The preferred build environment is to use gcc 4.2.1: this can easily be > built from the sources as a cross-compiler, but the MinGW-specific > patches are not yet stable (and not needed to build R). > > You will need suitable cross-compilers installed and in your path. > We do not at present distribute suitable cross-compilers.'
Thanks for the pointer. > from 'R Installation and Administration'? It looks like the MinGW > project are never going to release the sources for their build of gcc > 4.2.1 and that the next release will be of 4.3.0. > > I've not used them, but > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-cross/ > > does offer i386 and x86_64 cross-build toolchains for F8 and F9, and > I've seen references to Ubuntu/Debian cross-build toolchains. Many thanks, I'll give this a try. Regards, Iago >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Iago ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
