compiling C code using headers from another R package
On 03/12/2013 02:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 12 March 2013 at 13:56, Herv? Pag?s wrote: | The reason I'm interested in clarifying this is that we are facing | a similar situation with other libraries (e.g. the BOOST library) | used by some Bioconductor packages. Right now, each Bioconductor | package includes its own version of the BOOST source code, which | is of course less than optimal. Ideally we'd want to wrap the BOOST | source (or a subset of it, it's huge!) in something like an rBOOST | package and use a setup similar to what I describe above for RGSL | (i.e. using LinkingTo). Are there better ways? Is there something | like an RcppBOOST package? Sounds like, like for the GSL, it would | be better to install the static BOOST libs on the build machine and | have client packages link against that (but that also means more | complexity in the client packages since they need a configure script). Are you aware of the BH package on r-forge and now in CRAN? It provides Boost __headers__ which is enough for purely template-based packages. The bigmemory packages already uses it, and we are collecting a few 'issue tickets' at the R-Forge page to see which other (CRAN) packages could use which other Boost packages. Again, this works for _template_ based Boost library and excludes eg Boost regex which needs linking. So this may not help you if not to also link to Boost Graph.
That's great to know, thanks! We'll need to check which BioC packages are purely template-based. Using BH for those certainly sounds like a better way to go. H.
Dirk
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