[RQt-devel] windows binary built

Yihui Xie xieyihui at gmail.com
Fri Feb 10 21:31:17 CET 2012


This sounds fantastic! What is the size of the package with dll's embedded?

Regards,
Yihui
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Michael Lawrence
<lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Deepayan Sarkar <deepayan.sarkar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Michael Lawrence
>> <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:
>> > Hi guys,
>> >
>> > I think I've finally managed to build a Windows binary of qtbase using
>> > the
>> > standard command.exe as used by CRAN.   The trick here was to tell cmake
>> > to
>> > use the Unix Makefiles backend, which I had originally presumed was only
>> > for
>> > Unix-like systems. Apparently, it works with the R tool chain. I had to
>> > drop
>> > support for the QtUiTools module, as it seems to be linked incorrectly.
>> > That's already disabled on the Mac for similar reasons (which might be
>> > resolved by now).
>>
>> That's great news! Can we try it (or should we wait for CRAN)?
>>
>
> Probably easiest to wait for CRAN.
>
>>
>> Do we need to install Qt separately?
>>
>
> Nope, the Qt DLLs are embedded within the binary package. So it's a trivial
> install.
>
>>
>> -Deepayan
>>
>> > Anyway, I will upload the package to CRAN.. fingers crossed.
>> >
>> > Michael
>> >


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