[R] RSPerl on OS X

[Jan de Leeuw]

On OS X there is a difference between bundles loadable at runtime
(foo.so) and dynamic libraries used at link time (foo.dylib). They
are build with different linker flags. This creates the problem what
libR.dylib is, precisely, because obviously it is a module that must
be loaded into perl at runtime. Your perl does find libR.dylib, but
it cannot find the symbols it needs in there (it seems). Since this
will be a problem for all of the "bi-directional" OmegaHat packages, I  
think
it must be resolved in a general way by the OmegaHat team.

On Thursday, Jul 18, 2002, at 12:44 US/Pacific, Steve Goldstein wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Has anyone gotten RSPerl ( (http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/)
> to work on Mac OS X?
>
> After installing RSPerl, I run the test program (or, even simpler,
> perl -e 'use R;') and get the following error:
>
> dyld: perl Undefined symbols:
> _RPerl_createRProxy
> _RPerl_discardRProxy
> _RPerl_getProxyValue
> _RPerl_getReferenceName
> _addPerlConverterRoutine
> _fromPerl
> _tryEval
> _userLevelConversionToPerl
>
> It looks like the dynamic loader can't find the right libraries. The
> instructions (http://www.omegahat.org/RSPerl/RFromPerl.pdf)
> specify setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH envar.  I assumed that
> the corresponding envar on OS X is DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and added $R_HOME/bin/ and <wherever>/RSPERL/libs/ to
> the path, but this didn't help.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
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