[Rd] Building package under windows which links against a cygwin library
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Thu Nov 12 00:36:56 CET 2009
On 11/11/2009 4:41 PM, Cameron Bracken wrote:
> I am developing a package
> (http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/swfdevice/) which links against
> the ming C library. The package builds fine under Mac OS X and Linux.
> I am really out of my element on windows, but I know there is a cygwin
> package for libming.
>
> My question is, does anyone have advice/examples on linking R packages
> against cygwin libraries? Is this even possible? How would I go
> about writing a configure.win script to do this?
I suspect it's not going to work. Linking to any Cygwin library will
pull in the rest, and I would guess that will conflict with something
else in R, which does not use Cygwin.
What you could do is include a copy of the source to the ming library,
and get the regular R compilers to compile it. I just tried, and it
compiled without errors (though there were a few warnings). Then you
can write your R interface to it, and everything may just work.
The tricky bit might be getting the Makevars or Makefile right, but
theirs is really simple, so that shouldn't be so bad.
Duncan Murdoch
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