[Rcpp-devel] Local .h files and Rcpp attributes

[Romain Francois]

Le 19/10/13 22:37, JJ Allaire a écrit :
> Another alternative would be to create a new mechanism: an
> RcppExports.h file written into src (and thus not requiring
> modification of Makevars). This could include a comment explaining
> that anything "extra" the user wants in RcppExports.cpp should be
> declared there.

I don't like this. I think we should encourage people to use 
inst/include eitrher by doing it automatically as part of 
compileAttributes or by means of documentation.


>> On Oct 19, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19 October 2013 at 16:06, JJ Allaire wrote:
>> | For it to actually work though we'd need to modify Makevars as well (as Romain
>> | pointed out) so that the RcppExports.cpp could see the include file. This might
>> | get trickly.
>>
>> Well right now we simply set people up to fail / having to create it
>> themselves. Rcpp.package.skeleton() has always created src/Makevars{.win} but
>> currently does not include PKG_CPPFLAGS = ...  Maybe it should. Anyway...
>>
>> | My thought was that we should either generate a fully working
>> | solution or failing that generation enough pointers/documentation to get most
>> | users over the hump.
>>
>> The thread is long enough, so maybe the next someone struggles with this they
>> may find. If someone is itching to fix this, we will gladly take patches.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> --
>> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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