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On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 3:35 AM Tomas Kalibera <tomas.kalib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/16/20 7:57 PM, Steve Bronder wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 2:22 PM Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> If you don't mind multi-gig docker containers, this can be helpful: > >> > >> https://github.com/scottyhardy/docker-wine > >> > >> It doesn't work with 64 bit versions of R as far as I could tell, but 32 > >> bit did install and start correctly in a few clicks when I tried last > year. > >> > > Thanks! I'm hoping if I can get this all working locally I can put > > everything into a docker container for other folks. At this point I have > R > > up and running and it can install binary packages, but there are some > > terrible terrible Cygwin/Rtools errors I can't figure out. In particular > > this warning / message seems worrisome > > > > Cygwin WARNING: > > Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer. This typically occurs if you're > using > > an older Cygwin version on a newer Windows. Please update to the > latest > > available Cygwin version from https://cygwin.com/. If the problem > > persists, > > please see https://cygwin.com/problems.html > > > > If anyone has interest I can post a script for setting up the wine > instance > > as far as I can get atm. > > Did you have any update on this? If there is a problem with MinGW-w64 > version, you can (just for experimentation) try UCRT demo build, which > uses a newer version of MinGW-w64 than RTools 4: > So this worked with a patched version of wine. that fixed the above error. I'm waiting for that patch to go in and for the next wine release to try this again. > > https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2020/07/30/windows/utf-8-build-of-r-and-cran-packages/index.html > (reference at very bottom) > > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:56 AM J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >>> Are you sure you want to try to run R etc. under Wine? > >>> > > Do I want to? No :-). But we (Stan) want to use flto and are seeing > errors > > on windows I want to be able to debug locally. > > Please note Brian Ripley has added/improved support for cross-compiling > on Linux for Windows, so that it can be used for diagnosing LTO warnings > (see NEWS in R-devel and src/gnuwin32/README.compilation). The > cross-compilers and needed cross-compiled libraries for R itself are > part of at least some Linux distributions (he tested on Fedora). > Yes very exciting! > > >>> - If you have Windows running, either directly or in a VM, you can run > R > >>> there. > >>> > > Sadly I don't have access to a windows machine. If I can't figure this > out > > then I'll probably just get a windows aws instance. But it would be nice > > for people to have a wine setup they could test locally on. > > Microsoft is giving for free time-limited VMs primarily for testing > Edge/MSIE, you can run them in e.g. in Virtualbox. As instructed in the > VM, take snapshots often. > We have a Jenkins box that we use to spinup AWS windows sessions when we need to thoroughly debug now but ty for the info! > > >> - If you have Windows and want to run R under some other OS, then set > up a > >>> VM > >>> e.g., Linux Mint, for that. I sometimes test R for Windows in a > >>> VirtualBox VM > >>> for Win10, but generally run in Linux Mint. I've also run R in some > Linux > >>> VMs > >>> to test for specific dependencies in some distros. > >>> > >>> I rather doubt R will run very well in Linux under Wine. My experience > >>> with Wine > >>> is that a few apps (e.g. Irfanview) run well, but many give lots of > >>> trouble. > >>> > > Yes I'm 80/20 on whether compilation with Rtools will totally work on > wine. > > But if I can get this all setup and put it into a docker file I think it > > will be useful for other people as well so it's worth spending a bit of > > time on. > > Being able to test R on Wine may be useful, if you figure it out, I > would be interested to learn more. It is easier to obtain, may be easier > to automate, and some low-level bugs may be easier to diagnose. Of > course, for the price of sometimes seeing errors not present on real > Windows. > Do you think there would be more false positives or true negatives? That was my one big concern since it's just emulating the actual windows software environment. > > Best > Tomas > > >>> JN > >>> > >>> > >>> On 2020-07-15 1:17 p.m., Steve Bronder wrote: > >>>> Does anyone know of a setup guide for getting R and Rtools 4.0 up and > >>>> running on Wine with the Windows Server 2008 R2 VM? Do other > maintainers > >>>> with more knowhow think that would be useful for debugging purposes? > >>>> > >>>> I've been trying to test out some flto gcc things for windows by > >>> setting up > >>>> a local wine VM on my ubuntu box. Wine has an option for Windows > Server > >>>> 2008 R2 (which I believe is the windows session CRAN uses?) If anyone > >>> has > >>>> done this before and knows of a guide somewhere that would be very > >>> helpful! > >>>> Regards, > >>>> > >>>> Steve Bronder > >>>> > >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >>>> > >>>> ______________________________________________ > >>>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > >>>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > >> > > - Steve Bronder > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel - Steve Bronder [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
