There was a time when Windows (and MacOS X) builds occurred shortly after a package was updated at CRAN, and this appeared to be an automated process. Now there can be a significant delay before a package is built for these platforms. Has the process reverted to manual mode?
Thanks, Dominick On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Romain Francois <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just reposting this on the Rcpp mailing list in case people following > Rcpp-devel don't follow R-devel. > > Romain > > Le 26/07/10 08:58, Prof Brian Ripley a écrit : > > >> The MinGW-w64 project, whose toolchains we use for 64-bit Windows, have >> made some changes to their conventions *and* removed all the older >> binary builds from their site. The current toolchains are not suitable >> for use with R 2.11.x, and I've re-packaged an older version (which is) >> as http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/oldWin64toolchain.zip >> >> The most critical change is to no longer have an additional leading >> underscore on symbols, and we will adopt that convention for R 2.12.0. >> R-devel is now set up by default to use it: if you have been building >> R-devel with an older toolchain you will need to start afresh with the >> new one, a snapshot of which is at >> http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/Win64No_toolchain.zip >> >> The currently recommended tools are (as ever) documented in the R-admin >> manual for the version of R you use. >> >> Static and import libraries (but fortunately not DLLs) are incompatible >> across these changes. Only a very few binary packages (e.g. Rcpp [*]) >> contain these, but quite a few are built using import libraries for >> external software, and either need the import libraries recompiled or to >> be converted to link directly to DLLs. (These include RCurl RGtk2 >> cairoDevice hdf5 lossDev png rjags.) The libraries we use for CRAN >> packages have all been recompiled: these are available under >> >> old: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64/ >> new: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/goodies/Win64No_/ >> >> Uwe Ligges does not yet have a build service for R-devel on win-builder: >> it is hoped to have such a service within the next month using 32/64-bit >> builds, the 64-bit part using the new toolchain. >> >> Note that the underscore convention is not the only thing which has >> changed: gcc 4.5.x is used (rather than 4.4.4) and there are extensive >> changes to the headers. Some of these also necessitate changes to >> packages. >> >> [*] This means that if you use Rcpp the advice is to install from >> sources yourself Rcpp and any packages using it if you are using R-devel >> on Windows. >> >> > > -- > Romain Francois > Professional R Enthusiast > +33(0) 6 28 91 30 30 > http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr > |- http://bit.ly/bc8jNi : Rcpp 0.8.4 > |- http://bit.ly/dz0RlX : bibtex 0.2-1 > `- http://bit.ly/a5CK2h : Les estivales 2010 > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel >
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