[Rd] How to prepare/submit packages with external dependency?

[Andrew Finley]

Thanks guys,
I'll look at RquantLib as an example.  The port requires boost shared
pointers.  Currently the package resides at
http://blue.fr.umn.edu/data/MBA_0.0-2.tar.gz  It's all ready to go but for
this simple dependency.  Thanks again for the info.
-Andrew

On 4 Aug 2006, Simon Urbanek wrote:
> Andrew,
> 
> On Aug 4, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Andrew Finley wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to submit a new package that ports some code which uses  
> > the boost c++ library (i.e., an external dependency).  I have  
> > written a linux/unix configure file as described in the Witting R  
> > Extensions but don't know enough about windows to write a windows  
> > configure/makefile.
> >
> 
> The Makefile/Makevars should be essentially the same for WIndows and  
> unix, because Windows build uses GNU make and gcc as well. In most  
> cases the only difference is that you put the Windows settings  
> directly in Makevars.win instead of using autoconf to create Makevars  
> from Makevars.in.
> The usual procedure for external libraries is to use an environment  
> variable to specify where the library lives on Windows at build time.  
> configure.win is sometimes used to copy the dependent DLL into  
> package's libs directory such that package can be provided in a stand- 
> alone binary form. Another alternative is to use static library  
> instead. You may want to look at other packages on CRAN that use  
> external libraries.
> I can't really give you any more specific tips, because you didn't  
> even tell us what package you are talking about.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
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