Possible Windows builds

[eddelbuettel]

The Julia folks use a thing called WinRPM along with the openSUSE Build Service to provide Windows binaries.

Could we have Travis hook into this?

[sckott]

+1, would be awesome. Was thinking of a script to build windows binaries on an EC2 windows machine.

[eddelbuettel]

Ah, so you just volunteered. That was fast. Awesome. :)

[sckott]

I'll see what I can do
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[craigcitro]

+100, this would be fantastic.

I haven't owned a Windows machine since ~2003, so I'm gonna need help testing this. ;)

[krlmlr]

I did some experiments with running R in Wine (in my wine branch), but this currently fails because of an incompatible cygwin.dll.

References:

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34865
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Trouble-running-Rtools31-on-Wine-tt4680511.html#none

[sckott]

@krlmlr Any progress on that Wine error?

Also, where would builds using Wine be done? Just install Wine on each Travis build, or send elsewhere?

[krlmlr]

@schamberlain: The former, details are in my branch. I haven't found the time to play with Wine again.

[sckott]

@krlmlr thanks.

I did try, but to no avail. I don't think I'll have time to work on this, sorry :(

[craigcitro]

no sweat -- thanks @schamberlain, at least now we have a lead. :)

[sckott]

What about Appveyor? I asked them about support for R http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/questions/211-r-support - we'll see what happens.

[krlmlr]

There is now some support for AppVeyor-hosted Windows builds in krlmlr/r-appveyor. Very similar to Travis-CI -- needs a .yml configuration file which is similar but not identical to .travis.yml. The tool uses r-travis for the actual tests, so the configuration can be adapted with little effort (except for installing stuff -- this is probably going to be very different on Windows most of the time).

The project is working, but in an early stage. Currently, only tests on R-devel are supported (nightly build, loaded from a custom ISO image); Rtools is included, but no LaTeX yet. Self-tests pass. The good news: Artifacts (e.g., binary packages) can be hosted effortlessly on AppVeyor.