[Rd] Makevars or congiure for multi platforms

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Tadashi Kadowaki wrote:

> Prof Ripley,
>
> I fixed and uploaded.
>
> However, it is still useful for development of a package that is close
> to R core,
> if Rconfig.h contains all definitions in config.h. If Rconfig
> contained all information,
> I didn't have to refer the private header directory.

But your package can run its own configure to find such things itself. 
Which entries were you wanting to use?

>
> Regards,
>
> Tadashi Kadowaki
>
> 2008/6/9 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
>> Private headers are just that, private.  They are not intended to be
>> available to packages, and not installed by the standard R makefiles on
>> either Unix-alikes or Windows.
>>
>> I don't see it documented that they are available on MacOS X, and will leave
>> it to that platform's maintainers as to why they have been installed on that
>> platform.
>>
>> You need to rewrite your code to use only documented headers and entry
>> points if you intend to distribute it.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tadashi Kadowaki wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Laurent and Tobias
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> I could make configure script and upload it to r-forge.
>>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/pdf2/
>>> It still works only on mac by default.
>>> For Linux and Windows, it needs additional option like
>>> -----
>>> R CMD INSTALL
>>> --configure-vars="R_INTERNAL_HEADER_DIR=/path/to/src/include"
>>> pdf2/pkg
>>> -----
>>> ,where /path/to/src/include is the directory in the R source.
>>> I didn't check it for Linux and Windows...
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Tadashi Kadowaki
>>>
>>> 2008/6/8 Laurent Gautier <lgautier at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>> 2008/6/7  <r-devel-request at r-project.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 11
>>>>> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 03:38:23 +0900
>>>>> From: "Tadashi Kadowaki" <tadakado at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [Rd] Makevars or congiure for multi platforms
>>>>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>>       <dcb3073c0806061138n2f376a24r100f281ae248497a at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> As previously submitted, I wrote an extending pdf device to embed
>>>>> pop up text and web links.
>>>>> (Patches are available at http://pdf2.r-forge.r-project.org/patches)
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, I'm making a library version of the pdf device.
>>>>> However, with my skill, I'm not sure about writing Makevars or configure
>>>>> file
>>>>> for multi platforms. A following line in Makevars works on my mac,
>>>>> -----
>>>>> PKG_CFLAGS=-I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/PrivateHeaders
>>>>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
>>>>> -----
>>>>> (Note that the PrivateHeaders directory contains Fileio.h and Defn.h)
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is,
>>>>> How do I write Makevars or congiure for Unix/Linux and Windows?
>>>>> I would like to support those platforms in my library.
>>>>
>>>> You could try looking into a package that has configure, configure.win
>>>> and has built binaries for macosX and windows. Try the package 'rgl'
>>>> on CRAN, for example.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hoping this helps,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> L.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Tadashi Kadowaki
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595