For x86-Linux-to-Windows, [Rolf Ade] favors
the binaries at  
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/Rtools/mingw-cross.tar.bz2 .
One typically unzips .bz2 with "bunzip2".

This binary image requires GNU libc 2.2.

Add the bin dir of the mingw cross compiler to your PATH. (You could
also use the mingw32/bin dir, with links with 'standard' names - gcc,
ar, ranlib etc. - to the real program's in bin, but be careful to not
fool yourself with different 'gcc's in your PATH.)


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While someone once wrote, 
"To set up an Xmingwin cross compiler use the script provided by [Mo
DeJong] (a copy is available at [http://mini.net/sdarchive/xmingwin.sh] (notice the one bogus newline
in the middle of 'BASE_URL=...' which needs to be removed). This
script downloads Xmingwin, builds it and installs under
/usr/local/Xmingwin (you can edit the script and change the PREFIX
variable if you want to install it elsewhere)",
[CL] found that xmingwin.sh unworkable in October 2002.


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