Jon,
On 16 November 2020 at 12:27, Jon Davidson wrote: | I am trying to build an R package with a manually compiled .so file. To do | so, I have included a call to useDynLib() in my NAMESPACE file. In general you would not need to do that, or do that: - A package knows how to turn files in src/* into a .so (and a .dylib and a .dll none of which you need to explicitly, a huge win for you) - A package knows how to load a dynamic library declared in NAMESPACE | Building this works fine in RStudio with devtools::load_all('.'), but when | I try to run R CMD INSTALL, I get the error: package or namespace load | failed in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib): shared object | 'filename.so' not found. Only `R CMD INSTALL` matters here for (scripted) CRAN operations. If that fails you have a problem, no matter how helpful the optional tools are. | Is there any way I can debug library.dynam to see where it's looking for my | .so and why it can't find it? Thanks for your help! As said, R knows where to find a package's shared library file. For the rest, it is (on Linux) ld.so and its documentation but you (as far as I can remember) cannot set LD_LIBRARY_PATH from within a running R session. It might help if you described your problem in more detail with a reproducible example. Regards, Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel