1) When doing that, there won't be any problem using a different version of MinGW?
2) I'm guessing I'd want to do this in linux, to avoid including the cygwin dlls? --Jamie Jamie Olson On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 29 January 2014 at 15:07, Jamie Olson wrote: > | I'm trying to build the Avro-C > | library[http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.5/api/c/index.html]. There is > | a README for building in > | > windows[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avro/trunk/lang/c/README.maintaining_win32.txt] > | but it only has instructions for Visual Studio. I've recently been > | wondering if that was intentional, since now cmake-generated MSYS > | Makefiles are giving errors. > | > | Are you suggesting that I build the library with MinGW(in > | cygwin/linux?) and then just copy it to link to when building the > | package with Rcpp? > > In a nutshell, yes. > > If you want to / need to package Avro as a library it may be trickier. At a > first pass try to build a static library, then link your Rcpp package to that. > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
