There was a time when Windows (and MacOS X) builds occurred shortly after a package was<br>updated at CRAN, and this appeared to be an automated process. Now there can be a<br>significant delay before a package is built for these platforms. Has the process reverted<br>
to manual mode?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Dominick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Romain Francois <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:romain@r-enthusiasts.com">romain@r-enthusiasts.com</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;">Hello,<br>
<br>
I'm just reposting this on the Rcpp mailing list in case people following Rcpp-devel don't follow R-devel.<br>
<br>
Romain<br>
<br>
Le 26/07/10 08:58, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit :<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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The MinGW-w64 project, whose toolchains we use for 64-bit Windows, have<br>
made some changes to their conventions *and* removed all the older<br>
binary builds from their site. The current toolchains are not suitable<br>
for use with R 2.11.x, and I've re-packaged an older version (which is)<br>
as <a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/oldWin64toolchain.zip" target="_blank">http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/oldWin64toolchain.zip</a><br>
<br>
The most critical change is to no longer have an additional leading<br>
underscore on symbols, and we will adopt that convention for R 2.12.0.<br>
R-devel is now set up by default to use it: if you have been building<br>
R-devel with an older toolchain you will need to start afresh with the<br>
new one, a snapshot of which is at<br>
<a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/Win64No_toolchain.zip" target="_blank">http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/Win64No_toolchain.zip</a><br>
<br>
The currently recommended tools are (as ever) documented in the R-admin<br>
manual for the version of R you use.<br>
<br>
Static and import libraries (but fortunately not DLLs) are incompatible<br>
across these changes. Only a very few binary packages (e.g. Rcpp [*])<br>
contain these, but quite a few are built using import libraries for<br>
external software, and either need the import libraries recompiled or to<br>
be converted to link directly to DLLs. (These include RCurl RGtk2<br>
cairoDevice hdf5 lossDev png rjags.) The libraries we use for CRAN<br>
packages have all been recompiled: these are available under<br>
<br>
old: <a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64/" target="_blank">http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64/</a><br>
new: <a href="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64No_/" target="_blank">http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64No_/</a><br>
<br>
Uwe Ligges does not yet have a build service for R-devel on win-builder:<br>
it is hoped to have such a service within the next month using 32/64-bit<br>
builds, the 64-bit part using the new toolchain.<br>
<br>
Note that the underscore convention is not the only thing which has<br>
changed: gcc 4.5.x is used (rather than 4.4.4) and there are extensive<br>
changes to the headers. Some of these also necessitate changes to packages.<br>
<br>
[*] This means that if you use Rcpp the advice is to install from<br>
sources yourself Rcpp and any packages using it if you are using R-devel<br>
on Windows.<br>
<br>
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