[R] Adding GSL library path to SHLIB

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Vicky Landsman wrote:

> Dear R-list people, 

> I asked a similar question a few hours before. I will try to be more
> specific.  We like to add the GSL library to the file SHLIB in order to
> make it possible to run the C code using GSL functions from R.  We read

Read where?  It's incorrect information and only used for Fortran linking.

> that the path to the libgsl.a should be added to the line shlib_libadd='
> ' in the file SHLIB but it does not work on our system. Dyn.load fails
> with error "referenced symbol <symbolname> not found". What is wrong?  
> We will much appreciate any help on this.
> 
> We are using R-1.9.1 on Unix. 

You should have a file called Makevars in the directory from which 
you are doing the building, defining PKG_LIBS, maybe

PKG_LIBS="-L/path/to/libgsl -lgsl"

in the same way as you would for a package: see `Writing R Extensions'.
I don't think that is documented anywere, though.

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