[Rcpp-devel] Visual Studio compatible Rcpp

[Dominick Samperi]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:50 AM, <romain at r-enthusiasts.com> wrote:

>
> Le 14 sept. 2010 à 16:26, pooja varshneya <pooja.varshneya at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
> > Thanks for the reply Romaine !!
>
> How did i get an extra "e" in my name ? :-)
>
> > The FAQ entry says that R and Visual
> > Studio don't get along.
> > However, i managed to generate a Visual Studio compatible import
> > library  for R from the instructions given in R source folder
> > README.packages file.
> >
> > Can you please elaborate on the problems you encountered in Visual
> > Studio compilation ? Has anyone tried it before ?
>
> I have not. And i dont plan to.
>
> I suppose C is easier to deal with than C++. if i cared about that, i would
> first try to use a simpler C++ library (one or two vanilla c++ classes).
> Rcpp uses many features of C++ that perhaps confuse the compiler you want to
> use.
>

I already submitted the changes necessary to fix the compiler "confusion,"
as
you know.

It is not true that R needs to be built using Visual Studio in order to use
DLL's that
are created by Visual Studio. VS DLL's can simply be copied over MinGW DLL's
and R will not know the difference. Of course, it is also possible to test
and
use the C++ part of an R pacckage from the VS IDE.

Dominick
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