[Rd] Building R package with precompiled shared library

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.09.2011 15:52, Paul Gilbert wrote:
> My understanding is that this cannot be done, for both licence and security reasons. The package build expects source code and removes binaries. You can link with binaries that are provided separately from the package, possibly coming from a vendor that sells non-open source code, but you cannot include them in the package.

Actually, you can include them, but then the package won't be accepted 
on CRAN, for example.

Let me cite Writing R Extensions:

"Note that CRAN does not accept submissions of precompiled binaries due 
to security concerns, and does not allow binary executables in packages. 
Maintainers who need additional software for the Windows binaries of 
their packages on CRAN have three options

1. To arrange for installation of the package to download the additional 
software from a URL, as e.g. package Cairo does.
2. To negotiate with Uwe Ligges to host the additional components on 
WinBuilder, and write a ‘configure.win’ file to install them. There are 
many examples, e.g. package rgdal."

So in case you do not want to move it to CRAN, you can simply use the 
same tricks that rgdal uses for Windows binaries on CRAN.

Uwe Ligges





>
> Paul
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of Francesco Finazzi
>> Sent: September 14, 2011 3:41 AM
>> To: r-devel at r-project.org
>> Subject: [Rd] Building R package with precompiled shared library
>>
>> Dear R users,
>>
>> we are trying to build a R package that includes a precompiled shared
>> library, let's say mylib.so. We created the skeleton of the package
>> and we moved the mylib.so file into the libs folder that we created at
>> the same level of the folders man and R. Moreover we created the file
>> NAMESPACE and we added the line useDynLib(mylib, .registration=TRUE).
>> The building step seems to work correctly but when we try to install
>> the package we get
>>
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> Error in library.dynam(lib, package, package.lib) :
>>   shared library 'mylib' not found
>>
>> we cannot understand what's wrong and where R searches for the mylib.so
>> files.
>>
>> Any suggestion?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michela and Francesco
>>
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