Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your reply. </div><div><br></div><div>1.  Yes, simple scripts run via inline without issue. ( Rcpp and RcppArmadillo (latest versions) build and install without issue).  So I am confused by the syntax errors when including libRcpp.a when attempting to build my package.  <br>
<div><br></div><div>2. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; ">&gt; sessionInfo()</span>

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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black">R version 2.13.2
(2011-09-30)</span></p>

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x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)</span></p>

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en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8</span></p>

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mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;color:black">attached base packages:</span></p>

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graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
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Rcpp_0.9.7         </span></p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Steve Lianoglou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com">mailinglist.honeypot@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">What is the output of sessionInfo()? In particular it will be helpful<br>
to know what versions of Rcpp and RcppArmadillo you have installed on<br>
the mac you are trying to compile on.<br>
<br>
Also, do &quot;simple&quot; things work? Can you run a trivial `inline` example,<br>
for instance?<br>
<br>
-steve<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:43 PM, terrance savitsky &lt;<a href="mailto:tds151@gmail.com">tds151@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; Dear Rcpp experts, I&#39;m finding difficulty to build a package (created on<br>
&gt; Win) that uses Rcpp and RcppArmadillo on the Mac.  I&#39;ve attempted the build<br>
&gt; on multiple machines to rule out local issues.   I find a June 27 post on<br>
&gt; the Rcpp list<br>
&gt; (<a href="http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/2011-June/002548.html" target="_blank">http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/rcpp-devel/2011-June/002548.html</a>)<br>
&gt; that experiences very similar &quot;dlopen&quot; issues as I show below, though the<br>
&gt; cause is attributed to proper construction of C++ templates.  In my case, I<br>
&gt; do not create any templated classes; only use those in Rcpp and<br>
&gt; RcppArmadillo.  In this regard, please note the upstream syntax errors when<br>
&gt; attempting to include libRcpp.a.<br>
&gt; This post is a continuation of my previous, though I decided to change the<br>
&gt; title and re-post as I thought it would be more useful for future searches<br>
&gt; if composed this way.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;  Here are the error messages:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/Rcpp/lib/x86_64/libRcpp.a:<br>
&gt; line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline&#39;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/Rcpp/lib/x86_64/libRcpp.a:<br>
&gt; line 1: `!&lt;arch&gt;&#39;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; g++-4.2 -arch x86_64 -dynamiclib -Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -undefined<br>
&gt; dynamic_lookup -single_module -multiply_defined suppress -L/usr/local/lib -o<br>
&gt; growcurves.so DPre.o lgm.o mmC.o mmCchol.o mmCmiar.o mmCmvplusDP.o<br>
&gt; mmCplusDP.o mmI.o mmIgroup.o mmIgroupDP.o mmIplusDP.o mmmult.o<br>
&gt; -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib/x86_64 -lRlapack<br>
&gt; -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/lib/x86_64 -lRblas -lgfortran<br>
&gt; -F/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/.. -framework R -Wl,-framework<br>
&gt; -Wl,CoreFoundation<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/Rcpp/lib/x86_64/libRcpp.a:<br>
&gt; line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline&#39;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/Rcpp/lib/x86_64/libRcpp.a:<br>
&gt; line 1: `!&lt;arch&gt;&#39;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; installing to<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/growcurves/libs/x86_64<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** R<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** data<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** inst<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** preparing package for lazy loading<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** help<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; *** installing help indices<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** building package indices ...<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ** testing if installed package can be loaded<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;   unable to load shared object<br>
&gt; &#39;/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/growcurves/libs/x86_64/growcurves.so&#39;:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/growcurves/libs/x86_64/growcurves.so,<br>
&gt; 6): Symbol not found: __ZTIN4Rcpp12not_a_matrixE<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;   Referenced from:<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/growcurves/libs/x86_64/growcurves.so<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;   Expected in: flat namespace<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;  in<br>
&gt; /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/growcurves/libs/x86_64/growcurves.so<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Error: loading failed<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Execution halted<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ERROR: loading failed<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; * removing<br>
&gt; &#39;/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13/Resources/library/growcurves&#39;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; --<br>
&gt; Thank you for your help and expertise, Terrance Savitsky<br>
&gt;<br>
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<br>
--<br>
Steve Lianoglou<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Thank you, Terrance Savitsky<br>
</div></div>