Static build does not seem feasible for Qt. Qt does not provide static libs, so, as I understand it, it's not possible to statically link with it. Would have to build Qt ourselves. The current idea is to place the DLL's in the lib directory of the package at build time and then set the PATH environment variable to the lib directory when the package is loaded. This still seems open to weird Windows conflicts, but the user should not have to install anything.<br>
<br>GTK+ apparently explicitly loads modules at runtime, so static linking simply does not work. So I'll have to use the same strategy for RGtk2.<br><br>I'll get the binary from Nicholas and then you guys can try it out; just need Qt installed.<br>
<br>Michael<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Hadley Wickham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hadley@rice.edu">hadley@rice.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Awesome! And it's a static build, right? So end-users just need the<br>
package, and no other dependencies? (Does that make it huge?)<br>
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Hadley<br>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Michael Lawrence<br>
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> Just wanted to announce that Nicholas and I figured out how to get qtbase to<br>
> build on Windows yesterday. The necessary changes have been committed. Maybe<br>
> Nicholas can run a R CMD builld --binary to get a binary for us to<br>
> distribute until we work things out with CRAN. Building the binary requires<br>
> the same setup as building other R packages, with the obvious initial<br>
> requirements of Qt and cmake.<br>
><br>
> Michael<br>
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