[Rcpp-devel] Upload library with object files

[Sergio Bra]

Ok, thanks! It's a nice solution. Now, I have to fight with several
Makefiles, because I'm managing calls to lot of libraries. I'm studying the
R's Matrix library as a good example to achieve it. Thanks again for your
help

El mié., 20 feb. 2019 a las 9:48, Iñaki Ucar (<iucar at fedoraproject.org>)
escribió:

> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 at 09:33, Sergio Bra <sergio.bra88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi community,
> >
> > In the near future I'll be trying to publish a package in the CRAN and
> after reading "Writing R extensions" I have some doubts.
> >
> > I have some c++ functions, available from the R-side with Rcpp. These
> c++ functions have calls to some C packages. In the src directory I have
> the source code of these C libraries, and a directory with the .o files of
> the .c files, and informed in the PKG_LIBS variable. I've included the
> compiled files for different platforms: ubuntu x32, x64, and windows x32,
> x64 (I'll probably include support for OSX) and in the Makevars I select
> the .o files to use depending on the OS and arch.
> >
> > If I execute the R CMD check command, I have no errors but some warnings
> like "Object files/libraries should not be included in a source package".
> The message and the documentation just recommend not to use them but
> doesn't say that it is forbidden.
>
> It's a recommendation because there may be unavoidable exceptions. But
> in general, take it as a "must".
>
> > Can I have problems if I try to attemp the upload of the library in this
> circumstance?
>
> In short, yes, don't do that. And anyway, what's the point if you have
> the source code of these libraries? Just provide it with the proper
> setup to compile them during package installation. There are plenty of
> examples on CRAN of packages bundling third-party libraries.
>
> Iñaki
>
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