Makevars or congiure for multi platforms

Prof. Ripley,

Yes, I can configure when I write configure.ac correctly.
But, If you provide all settings in Rconfig.h, I don't have to
write configure.ac. That is a big benefit for package developers.

Which entries were you wanting to use?

Actually I haven't written correct configure.ac yet.

Regards,

Tadashi Kadowaki

2008/6/10 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Tadashi Kadowaki wrote:

Prof Ripley,

I fixed and uploaded.

However, it is still useful for development of a package that is close
to R core,
if Rconfig.h contains all definitions in config.h. If Rconfig
contained all information,
I didn't have to refer the private header directory.

But your package can run its own configure to find such things itself. Which
entries were you wanting to use?

Regards,

Tadashi Kadowaki

2008/6/9 Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:

Private headers are just that, private.  They are not intended to be
available to packages, and not installed by the standard R makefiles on
either Unix-alikes or Windows.

I don't see it documented that they are available on MacOS X, and will
leave
it to that platform's maintainers as to why they have been installed on
that
platform.

You need to rewrite your code to use only documented headers and entry
points if you intend to distribute it.


On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Tadashi Kadowaki wrote:

Hi, Laurent and Tobias

Thanks a lot.

I could make configure script and upload it to r-forge.
https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/pdf2/
It still works only on mac by default.
For Linux and Windows, it needs additional option like
-----
R CMD INSTALL
--configure-vars="R_INTERNAL_HEADER_DIR=/path/to/src/include"
pdf2/pkg
-----
,where /path/to/src/include is the directory in the R source.
I didn't check it for Linux and Windows...

Regards,

Tadashi Kadowaki

2008/6/8 Laurent Gautier <lgautier at gmail.com>:

2008/6/7  <r-devel-request at r-project.org>:

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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 03:38:23 +0900
From: "Tadashi Kadowaki" <tadakado at gmail.com>
Subject: [Rd] Makevars or congiure for multi platforms
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Dear all,

As previously submitted, I wrote an extending pdf device to embed
pop up text and web links.
(Patches are available at http://pdf2.r-forge.r-project.org/patches)

Now, I'm making a library version of the pdf device.
However, with my skill, I'm not sure about writing Makevars or
configure
file
for multi platforms. A following line in Makevars works on my mac,
-----
PKG_CFLAGS=-I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/PrivateHeaders
-DHAVE_CONFIG_H
-----
(Note that the PrivateHeaders directory contains Fileio.h and Defn.h)

My question is,
How do I write Makevars or congiure for Unix/Linux and Windows?
I would like to support those platforms in my library.

You could try looking into a package that has configure, configure.win
and has built binaries for macosX and windows. Try the package 'rgl'
on CRAN, for example.


Hoping this helps,


L.

Regards,

Tadashi Kadowaki

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595