[Rcpp-devel] linking Rcpp with external GSL library

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 13 January 2014 at 16:53, Florian Oswald wrote:
| Kevin Ushey was right: just had to recompile the external library with -fPIC. 

Yes, linking of a static library built with PIC (position-independent code) works.
 
| Good to know that I could just copy everything into src and avoid such
| issues. 

It's shortcut. It forces rebuilds of all the library files and you have to
make sure you are allowed to distribute the library.  But hey it works (and
some CRAN packages do it, see eg RSQLite).

Dirk

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