FWIW: you can cross-compile Windows packages on a Mac fairly easily. All you need is current MinGW, everything else is already in the Xcode tools. The only drawback is that you won't get CHM help by default - if you want it, you have to use hhc which is a Windows program, but you can run it in Wine thus you don't need Windows at all.
Cheers, Simon On May 11, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Jean Thioulouse wrote: > At 15:42 -0400 9/05/07, Sebastien Durand wrote: >> Hello to all, >> >> I am a package developper and I would like to >> know what is the best way to build package >> binaries for both Windows and Mac installation of >> R, using a macbook pro? >> >> The command I am presently using to create and build my packages >> binaries is : >> >> "R CMD BUILD ~/foo" -> This produce foo.tar.gz >> which cannot be used in a windows installation of R. > > I use the "R CMD build --binary" command under Windows in Parallels > Desktop for Mac. It works quite well on my macbook with 2Gb RAM. > See http://www.parallels.com/ > > You might want to check VirtualBox too : http://www.virtualbox.org/ > which is now free (GNU licence). > > Of course, you must have the complete R development tools setup under > the guest Windows OS, which is even trickier than on MacOS (as opposed > to Linux). > > I also have a Linux Debian installed in Parallels Desktop and R CMD > build --binary works well too. > > Jean > -- > Jean Thioulouse - Labo Biometrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR CNRS 5558 > Universite Lyon 1, Batiment Mendel, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918 > 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex - France http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/JTHome/ > Tel : (33) 4 72 43 27 56 Fax : (33) 4 72 43 13 88 > # msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # jabber: jt69 # .mac: j.thioulouse # > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
