[R-SIG-Mac] rgl in R version 4.1.1 Patched (2021-08-13 r80752)

[Simon Urbanek]

R (and the CRAN builds) use more recent static freetype with harfbuzz support so it does not depend for those in XQuartz.

The issue is that rgl doesn't use sufficient flags to compile against freetype since it misses the dependencies - in fact is fails checks,
https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-release-macos-arm64/rgl-00check.html

pkg-config has to be used with --static --libs otherwise the linking doesn't have all the dependencies included that are necessary:

$ pkg-config freetype2 --libs
-L/opt/R/arm64/lib -lfreetype 

$ pkg-config freetype2 --static --libs
-L/opt/R/arm64/lib -lfreetype -lbz2 -lpng16 -lz -lharfbuzz -lm -lglib-2.0 -lintl -liconv -lm -Wl,-framework,CoreFoundation -Wl,-framework,Carbon -Wl,-framework,Foundation -Wl,-framework,AppKit -lpcre 

The CRAN binaries are built against static libraries to make sure the user doesn't have to install 3rd party dependencies.
It looks line rgl does the right thing for libpng but not for freetype.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Aug 19, 2021, at 9:54 PM, Stefan Evert <stefanML using collocations.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 19 Aug 2021, at 10:40, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Error in dyn.load(dynlib <- getDynlib(dir)) :
>>>  unable to load shared object '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so':
>>>  dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so, 6): Symbol not found: _hb_buffer_add_utf8
>>>  Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so
>>>  Expected in: flat namespace
>>> in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/library/rgl/libs/rgl.so
>> 
>> That looks like a symbol in the harfbuzz lib.  rgl doesn't reference it directly, I think FreeType does.  I don't know what you need to do to fix this, but maybe that's enough of a hint.
> 
> I just ran into the same problem with a M1 MacBook and XQuartz 2.8.1 installed.  My MacBook has no developer tools installed, not even XCode – just R, "rgl" (and various other packages) from CRAN, and XQuartz. 
> 
> XQuartz doesn't include libharfbuzz, so I doubt that it's libfreetype depends on it.  Any chance that the CRAN machine that builds the aarch64 binary package links against some other version of freetype that pulls in the dependency?
> 
> Best,
> Stefan
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