[Rd] compiling C code using headers from another R package

[Hervé Pagès]

On 03/12/2013 02:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 12 March 2013 at 13:56, Hervé Pagès wrote:
> | The reason I'm interested in clarifying this is that we are facing
> | a similar situation with other libraries (e.g. the BOOST library)
> | used by some Bioconductor packages. Right now, each Bioconductor
> | package includes its own version of the BOOST source code, which
> | is of course less than optimal. Ideally we'd want to wrap the BOOST
> | source (or a subset of it, it's huge!) in something like an rBOOST
> | package and use a setup similar to what I describe above for RGSL
> | (i.e. using LinkingTo). Are there better ways? Is there something
> | like an RcppBOOST package? Sounds like, like for the GSL, it would
> | be better to install the static BOOST libs on the build machine and
> | have client packages link against that (but that also means more
> | complexity in the client packages since they need a configure script).
>
> Are you aware of the BH package on r-forge and now in CRAN?
>
> It provides Boost __headers__ which is enough for purely template-based
> packages.  The bigmemory packages already uses it, and we are collecting
> a few 'issue tickets' at the R-Forge page to see which other (CRAN) packages
> could use which other Boost packages.  Again, this works for _template_ based
> Boost library and excludes eg Boost regex which needs linking.  So this may
> not help you if not to also link to Boost Graph.

That's great to know, thanks! We'll need to check which BioC packages
are purely template-based. Using BH for those certainly sounds like
a better way to go.

H.

>
> Dirk
>

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