[Rprotobuf-yada] building on windows

[eckuipers-web at yahoo.com]

Hey Dirk,
Building the google protobuf library under windows just works for me with 
configure; make; make install. I was talking about RProtoBuf, which also seems 
to have a configure script that i need to run.
Best,
Koert

----- Original Message ----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> To: eckuipers-web at yahoo.com
> Cc: rprotobuf-yada at r-forge.wu-wien.ac.at
> Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 8:34:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rprotobuf-yada] building on windows
> 
> 
> On 16 February 2011 at 16:59, eckuipers-web at yahoo.com wrote:
> |  Hey all,
> | 
> | I again look again at building RProtoBuf on windows... 
> |  How do i  start? The first thing is to do a ./configure i guess? Now i have  
>my 
>
> | regular  mingw/msys environment in which i could try to do this.  But R also 

> | comes with its own mingw compiler environment in Rtools. Does  Rtools have a 

> | shell  in which i could do the configure?
> 
> When  we mentioned this to Kenton, he looked surprised -- to him it just
> worked via  'configure; make; make install'.  It was my understanding that he
> used  just a regular MSys / MinGW environment for this.
> 
> So if you have bit of  patience to try this, I would suggest the following
> two-step:
> 
>    i)  take the Protocol Buffers folks by their word and see if you can  build
>       a MinGW library and binary; this should work with  a regular MSys but
>       you may need to install a few tools;  I recall it failed for me when it
>       came to libtool so  maybe I had a bad libtool version
> 
>   ii) with a library from i), we  should be able to have R and RProtoBuf take
>       advantage of  it.
> 
> Doing i) would be a really great help. 
> 
> We could even talk to  Uwe to see if he'd want it for CRAN builds.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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>