R SIG Debian - Jan 2008 - crossbuilding packages with mingw32

Hi,

Does anybody have experience building windows packages in Debian?  I
think the mingw32 package is the ticket for it.  In the past, I've done
this using the procedure on the R News article (Building Microsoft
Windows versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux), but it seems it
should be possible with mingw32 directly.  Any tips on what to read?
Thanks.


Cheers,

-- 
Seb

On Jan 23, 2008 5:21 PM, Sebastian P. Luque <spluque at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody have experience building windows packages in Debian?  I
> think the mingw32 package is the ticket for it.  In the past, I've done
> this using the procedure on the R News article (Building Microsoft
> Windows versions of R and R packages under Intel Linux), but it seems it
> should be possible with mingw32 directly.  Any tips on what to read?
I would recommend using Uwe's win-builder site,
http://win-builder.r-project.org, to build a Windows binary version of
a package.  If you don't know what the win-builder site is, please do
check it out and avoid the need to install and work with the mingw32
package.

I find that the less contact I have with the Windows operating system,
the lower my blood pressure stays.