Andrew, On Aug 4, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Andrew Finley wrote:
> I'd like to submit a new package that ports some code which uses > the boost c++ library (i.e., an external dependency). I have > written a linux/unix configure file as described in the Witting R > Extensions but don't know enough about windows to write a windows > configure/makefile. > The Makefile/Makevars should be essentially the same for WIndows and unix, because Windows build uses GNU make and gcc as well. In most cases the only difference is that you put the Windows settings directly in Makevars.win instead of using autoconf to create Makevars from Makevars.in. The usual procedure for external libraries is to use an environment variable to specify where the library lives on Windows at build time. configure.win is sometimes used to copy the dependent DLL into package's libs directory such that package can be provided in a stand- alone binary form. Another alternative is to use static library instead. You may want to look at other packages on CRAN that use external libraries. I can't really give you any more specific tips, because you didn't even tell us what package you are talking about. Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
