[R] switching compilers with R CMD SHLIB

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Jarrod Hadfield wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble compiling some parallelised c++ code using R CMD
> SHLIB because I cannot seem to specify which compiler is used.  The
> default uses g++ and I would like to use mpicxx distributed with
> MPICH-2.  Is this possible?

Yes, and ?SHLIB points you to the documentation of how to do so.
What about that did you not understand?  E.g.

MAKEFLAGS="CC=mpicxx" R CMD SHLIB *.c

should work, amongst other ways.

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