On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > Hmm, I don't think you need a whole Makefile - while it is a > bit complicated to set locations, etc, essentially if your C code > needs an extra DLL (well, you'll have to bundle it with your package, > etc because the otherwise link-loader won't find it), it is mostly > just in Makevars.win > > PGK_LDGLAGS=-lotherlib > > 'compiling against a DLL in a another package' is alright, but resolving > the DLL at runtime won't be trivial (unless you set explicit dependency > of your package against this other one) ; so you might be better off > compiling against a static build of the other with yours.
There is an interface to ensure that happens: details in 'Writing R Extensions'. The 'live' example is lme4 'LinkingTo' on Matrix and stats. > Iago Mosqueira wrote: > <snipped> >> Many thanks for the information. I am trying to make a package C code >> compile against a DLL already present in another package, so I need to >> include its location in the call to gcc. I'll see what the most >> portable system could be and will test widely. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Iago Mosqueira >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
