[Rd] How to customize the list of exported functions in a shared library (update)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Vladimir Eremeev wrote:

> Vladimir Eremeev wrote:

Something important is missing here!

>> It calls gcc:
>> gcc  "-I../sources" "-I."  -IC:/PROGRA~1/R/include  -gdwarf-2 -Wall -O2
>> -std=gnu99   -c rsnns.c -o rsnns.o
>> gcc  -shared   -o Rsnns.dll Rsnns.def [ lots of *.o ]  -LC:/PROGRA~1/R/bin
>> "-Lc:/mingw/lib" -lfl -liberty   -lR
>>
>> The file Rsnns.def is generated automatically and is deleted on success.
>> On error, it remains, and contains export of all symbols.
>> Probably GCC generates it, I haven't tracked its generation in the R's
>> scripts.

Actually, you *still* haven't tracked its generation in the R's scripts.

> This file is generated in R scripts.
> MkRules contains
>
> %.dll:
> 	@$(ECHO) EXPORTS > $*.def
> 	@$(NM) $^ | $(SED) -n 's/^........ [BCDRT] _/ /p' >> $*.def
> 	$(DLL) -shared $(DLLFLAGS) $($*-DLLFLAGS) -o $@ $*.def $^ $($*-DLLLIBS)
> $(DLLLIBS)
> 	@$(RM) $*.def

Yes, but that is not necessarily the rule used.  See MakeDll which 
contains the rules for generating DLLs to be linked into R, and CHANGES 
for the documentation.

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