wrong list. This belongs on the r-package-devel list. https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
Brian On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 13:38 +0200, Holger Hoefling wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently preparing a package for hdf5 that ships and compiles from > source on windows. The intention here is to avoid having to ship or > download a binary from an unknown source. As a dependency, I need the cmake > program installed. > > Here my question: > 1. Is cmake installed on win-builder? If not, could it be installed? If > yes, in a specified standard location or available through the PATH > variable? > 2. How do I specify that a package is only intended for a specific OS? > > On another note here: > The package I am preparing would only compile the binaries on windows. On > other systems, I would prefer to have people install them thought native > services (e.g. apt-get) to make configuration etc. more manageable for > system administrators (even though that puts a little more burden on the > end-user on these systems). > > Second question: > Is there a way to specify an OS-specific dependency? As the hdf5lib package > is rather large and intended for windows only, I would prefer if it isn't > downloaded anywhere else. > > thanks for your help > > Holger > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
