A configure.win file if found in the root of the package is executed during install before files from /inst are copied. What you can do is not to put your dlls in /libs but elsewhere in /inst and write a simple DOS script that will copy the required dll into /libs and rename it correspondingly.
I have something similar for my package as I include a windows dll in the source package because compiling my package requires a lot of dependencies on Windows. So I have this dll in /inst/winlibs and the configure.win file deletes the /src directory (thus preventing it from compiling if inst/winlibs is not empty) and copies the dll to /libs Have a look at the source of http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~osklyar/EBImage/src/EBImage_2.1.10.tar.gz Best, Oleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to create a binary package for Windows which when > installed will give the user an option of whether to install > one version or another. > > Here is the problem, I have a package 'FAME' that can run > in two different modes on Windows. An old mode that uses > R to connect to a remote linux machine and a new way that > uses a locally installed database. > > I would allow this decision to be made at run time, but > the DLL in the later case depends upon the database's DLL > being on the Windows machine. A runtime solution would > require at least one extra level of dynamic loading. > > So I would like something like this to happen: > the zip file contains fame-local.dll and fame-remote.dll > when the user selects 'install packages from a zip file' > the user should be given the option of which DLL > should be renamed to 'fame.dll'. > > Is this possible?? > > If so, how would I do it? > > If not, then are there an recommendations for a solution? > An alternative I can try is to have 2 separate packages, > 'fame' and 'fame-remote'. > > Thanks, > Rick Jones > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Dr Oleg Sklyar * EBI/EMBL, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England * +44-1223-494466 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
