On 04/05/2007 4:25 PM, Greg Snow wrote: > I have used the pp/par combination for Perl before. It is pretty straight > forward to convert an existing perl script into a stand alone windows > executable. > > Both the Activestate licence and the Perl Artistic licence allow for > embedding a script and perl interpreter together and distributing the result. > > The current perl script(s) used for the R package build package could easily > be converted to a 'stand alone' windows executable and be distributed with > Rtools for those who do not want to install Perl themselves. > > The only drawback is that even a "Hello World" script will result in over a > meg sized executable (due to the perl interpreter being included).
I took a quick look at the PAR page on CPAN, and it seems possible to build a DLL that incorporates the interpreter, and then each individual script .exe could be much smaller. I'll see if I can get that to work; it would be really nice to be able to drop the Perl requirement. If we could do that, I'd include the command line tools plus the compiled scripts with the basic R distribution, so you could easily build simple packages. The Rtools.exe installer would then just need to install the MinGW compilers for packages containing compiled code, and a few extras needed for building R. I don't really know Perl, so I might be asking for advice if I get stuck. Duncan Murdoch > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Gabor Grothendieck > Sent: Fri 5/4/2007 11:55 AM > To: Doran, Harold > Cc: [email protected]; Duncan Murdoch > Subject: Re: [R] [SPAM] - Re: R package development in windows - > BayesianFilter detected spam > > > > Just googling I found this: > > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=186402 > > On 5/4/07, Doran, Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The best, of course, would be to get rid of Perl altogether. >> In Python, it is possible to make standalone executables. Is it possible >> to also do this in Perl, then one could eliminate a perl install. Or, is >> it possible to use Python to accomplish what perl is currently doing? I >> may be getting in over my head here since I really don't know what perl >> is doing under the hood. >> >> Harold >> > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
