[RQt-devel] windows binary built

[Michael Lawrence]

Sorry, I was wrong abut the size.

The package library is 27 MB, the Qt binaries are 57 MB. Overall, the
package is 96 MB.

Also, it looks like we will not be able to easily sneak the Qt DLLs into
the binary of the package (CRAN did not want to do that). R CMD check finds
extra DLL files and throws a warning. Thus, I am going to take the GTK+
route and put a zip file of the binary up on github. qtbase will detect the
missing binaries and download/install them upon load, just like RGtk2.
Compressed, the Qt DLLs are only 23 MB.

Currently, Qt only distributes 32 bit binaries for MinGW, so qtbase will
only work with 32 bit R (on Windows). We would have to build our own
binaries to support 64 bit.

Michael

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com>wrote:

> The qtbase (autogenerated) source code compiled is 25 MB. The Qt DLLs add
> another 25 MB, so about 50 MB. Documentation would add another 50 MB. I
> have converted the types in the Qt documentation to look more like R types
> (no const, * etc). The documentation is not part of the package yet though.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This sounds fantastic! What is the size of the package with dll's
>> embedded?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yihui
>> --
>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name
>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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