[Rcpp-devel] optionally linking to external libraries

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 9 June 2015 at 06:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| | I'm trying to find a way to provide the additional functionality without 
| | forcing the user to install these dependencies. On Linux/Mac a possible 
| | way to do that would be to use autoconf, but from what I read Windows 
| | support is going to be headache. Does anyone have advice on 
| | alternatives? Much appreciated.
| 
| Take this one at a time.  On Linux/OS X autoconf is indeed common. Some
| package include their own libraries, external libraries is (IMHO) more
| elegant.  Some do hybrids.
| 
| Windows is always different.

PS The nloptr package may be an interesting stanza. Jelmer first wrote it
with an included copy of nlopt; I later helped generalize to use libnlopt if
present (which obviously makes the package build a lot lighter).

CRAN is a treasure chest. Keep hunting, I am sure you will find many nuggets.

Dirk

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