[RQt-devel] windows binary built

[Michael Lawrence]

Frustrating news:

With R 2.15, CRAN will requires packages to support 64 bit Windows, so they
are not accepting any more 32-bit-only submissions. This means I need to
create a custom 64 bit build of Qt. So that is going to be a while...

Michael

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Michael Lawrence <michafla at gene.com>wrote:

> 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
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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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