[Rcpp-devel] Symbol not found when including an external library

[Steve Jaffe]

The simplest solution is to build nlopt as a shared library and link to that. See http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt_Installation#Shared_libraries

(I may be wrong, but I don't think it's always possible to link a static library into a shared library regardless of how the static library was build (think: PIC) and on all platforms. This is why I say replacing the static library with a shared library is the simplest solution -- we know it will work.)