[Rd] Registration of native routines

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 14/02/2017 16:25, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> Registration of 'native routines' (entry points in compiled code loaded
> into R) has been available for over 14 years,

...

> (There are reports that the check in 'R CMD check' on Windows sometimes
> fails to detect use of registration.  This is being looked into:
> meanwhile say so in a CRAN submission if it happens to you.)

One instance has been resolved: for at least 5 years R CMD check for a 
package with compiled code has assumed commands 'nm' and (on Windows) 
'objdump' were on the PATH: these are also needed to detect use of 
registration.  There is now a warning if they are not found.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford