On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murd...@stats.uwo.ca> wrote: > > On 11/11/2009 4:41 PM, Cameron Bracken wrote: >> >> I am developing a package >> (http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/swfdevice/) which links against >> the ming C library. The package builds fine under Mac OS X and Linux. >> I am really out of my element on windows, but I know there is a cygwin >> package for libming. >> >> My question is, does anyone have advice/examples on linking R packages >> against cygwin libraries? Is this even possible? How would I go >> about writing a configure.win script to do this? > > I suspect it's not going to work. Linking to any Cygwin library will pull in > the rest, and I would guess that will conflict with something else in R, > which does not use Cygwin. >
I figured that would be the case. > > What you could do is include a copy of the source to the ming library, and > get the regular R compilers to compile it. I just tried, and it compiled > without errors (though there were a few warnings). Then you can write your R > interface to it, and everything may just work. Hey, that is great! I thought about doing this but decided arbitrarily that it would be too hard. Do I just plop a copy of the ming source in the src/ directory of my package (then adjust Makevars accordingly)? Did you run the whole ming configure script as well? -Cameron ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
