On 9 June 2015 at 06:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | I'm trying to find a way to provide the additional functionality without | | forcing the user to install these dependencies. On Linux/Mac a possible | | way to do that would be to use autoconf, but from what I read Windows | | support is going to be headache. Does anyone have advice on | | alternatives? Much appreciated. | | Take this one at a time. On Linux/OS X autoconf is indeed common. Some | package include their own libraries, external libraries is (IMHO) more | elegant. Some do hybrids. | | Windows is always different.
PS The nloptr package may be an interesting stanza. Jelmer first wrote it with an included copy of nlopt; I later helped generalize to use libnlopt if present (which obviously makes the package build a lot lighter). CRAN is a treasure chest. Keep hunting, I am sure you will find many nuggets. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
