[R-SIG-Mac] Request for guidance on compiling C++ using RInside within Xcode 5, OSX 10.9.4, R 3.1.1 (mavericks version)

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Mon Jul 28 15:58:17 CEST 2014 

To be precise this seems like a bug in Rcpp/RInside - whichever is adding the -I../Rcpp include. Since Rcpp contains String.h it will break everything due to the conflict with standard string.h (HFS is case-insensitive by default).

Cheers,
Simon


On Jul 28, 2014, at 2:13 AM, Kevin Ushey <kevinushey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Roger,
> 
> Did you see this StackOverflow post?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15489065/rcppeclipse-on-mac-os-x/17054405
> 
> It sounds like the poster describes the same problem as what you're seeing,
> and various prescriptions are offered.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Roger Dean <Roger.Dean at uws.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Request for guidance on compiling C++ using RInside within Xcode 5, OSX
>> 10.9.4, R 3.1.1 (mavericks version).
>> 
>> Hi R-SIG-mac experts,
>> I know this question is close to some asked previously, and also to
>> comment 2.10 of the FAQ document on RInside provided by Dirk Eddelbuettel
>> and Romain Francois, but I still cannot solve it, nor find examples of
>> others doing so that are clear (or at least, clear to me, apologies if
>> appropriate).
>> 
>> I would like to compile C++ code that uses RInside, but within Xcode 5,
>> and using OSX 10.9.4, R 3.1.1 (mavericks version). The reason I wish to do
>> this is that I am writing time series analysis/generative externals for
>> MAXMSP, a widely used MIDI and audio processing platform, and it is built
>> on C and focused on Xcode as the developer tool (it is difficult to find
>> people compiling MAX externals using clang++ and not Xcode, though I
>> continue to search also towards this possible alternative route.)
>> 
>> So the helpful examples in the RInside source include rinside_sample0.cpp,
>> and this compiles/builds fine for me with the Make process, or with clang++
>> directly. And it runs, as do all but one of the other examples. It is very
>> simple as intended, and I'm sure many of you will have looked at it:
>> 
>> // -*- mode: C++; c-indent-level: 4; c-basic-offset: 4;  tab-width: 8; -*-
>> //
>> // Simple example showing how to do the standard 'hello, world' using
>> embedded R
>> //
>> // Copyright (C) 2009 Dirk Eddelbuettel
>> // Copyright (C) 2010 Dirk Eddelbuettel and Romain Francois
>> //
>> // GPL'ed
>> 
>> #include <RInside.h>                    // for the embedded R via RInside
>> 
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>> 
>>    RInside R(argc, argv);              // create an embedded R instance
>> 
>>    R["txt"] = "Hello, world!\n"; // assign a char* (string) to 'txt'
>> 
>>    R.parseEvalQ("cat(txt)");           // eval the init string, ignoring
>> any returns
>> 
>>    exit(0);
>> }
>> 
>> I have taken note of the comments about the .R/Makevars, including the
>> statements about -stdlib=libstdc++ -mmacosx-version-min=10.6 from Sturla
>> Molden (Feb 8 2014) and others. I am providing to Xcode libR.dylib, and
>> paths to headers and other libraries. I saw a reference to an Rcpp library,
>> but in my RCpp source and R 3.1.1 there is only Rcpp.so, not .dylib. I have
>> added this to the Xcode project, though I am not clear that it will be used.
>> 
>> After innumerable permutations in my attempts, I can only get as far as
>> reproducible problems with the string.h code from the Rcpp source (see
>> listing below taken directly from the Xcode 'issues' listing). I realise
>> there is a historic issue about the LLVM default compiler (now labelled
>> Apple LLVM 5.0), but I hoped that was what Makevars could solve.
>> 
>> Can anyone advise whether it is currently feasible to do what I want, and
>> ideally give more specific cues, please?
>> 
>> many thanks in advance
>> 
>> Roger Dean
>> 
>> roger.dean at uws.edu.au<mailto:roger.dean at uws.edu.au>
>> Reported Issues:
>> 
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:52:17:
>> Use of undeclared identifier 'internal'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:52:39:
>> Expected member name or ';' after declaration specifiers
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:53:17:
>> Use of undeclared identifier 'internal'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:53:45:
>> Expected member name or ';' after declaration specifiers
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:66:16:
>> Unknown type name 'SEXP'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:71:23:
>> Unknown type name 'StringProxy'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:75:23:
>> Unknown type name 'const_StringProxy'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:102:17:
>> Unknown type name 'Rcomplex'; did you mean '_Complex'?
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:103:17:
>> Unknown type name 'Rbyte'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:108:35:
>> Unknown type name 'Rbyte'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:110:35:
>> Unknown type name 'Rcomplex'; did you mean '_Complex'?
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:111:35:
>> Unknown type name 'SEXP'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:112:41:
>> Unknown type name 'StringProxy'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:170:42:
>> Unknown type name 'StringProxy'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:178:36:
>> Unknown type name 'SEXP'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:313:16:
>> Unknown type name 'SEXP'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:318:16:
>> Unknown type name 'SEXP'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:355:9:
>> Unknown type name 'SEXP'
>> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.1/Resources/library/Rcpp/include/Rcpp/String.h:358:21:
>> Implicit instantiation of undefined template 'std::basic_string<char,
>> std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >'
>> Too many errors emitted, stopping now
>> 
>> 
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