Thanks Uwe. My misunderstanding. I thought the reference was to one of the "src/" directories in the base R tree. However, I found examples in some packages for the location.
Windows is alien territory for me, unfortunately. JN On 2021-06-12 7:27 p.m., Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > On 12.06.2021 16:39, J C Nash wrote: >> Two minor notes: >> >> 1) The Writing R Extensions manual, as far as I can determine, does not >> inform package >> developers that Makevars.win needs to be in the src/ subdirectory. I >> followed the example >> of some other packages to choose where to put it. > > I just searched for Makevars.win in Writing R Extensions and the first > occurence is: > "There are platform-specific file names on Windows: src/Makevars.win" > > So tells you both it should be in src and how to capitlize. > > Best, > Uwe > > >> >> 2) Also, while I managed to get my package to install with "makevars.win", I >> got a >> WARNING on running a CHECK until I replaced it with "Makevars.win", i.e., >> Camel-case >> name. >> >> Do these observations merit edits in the manual? >> >> JN >> >> >> On 2021-06-11 11:16 a.m., J C Nash wrote: >>> After some flailing around, discovered a posting >>> >>> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42118561/error-in-r-cmd-shlib-compiling-c-code >>> >>> which showed a makevars.win file containing >>> >>> PKG_LIBS = $(LAPACK_LIBS) $(BLAS_LIBS) $(FLIBS) >>> >>> I had tried several similar such makevars.win files, but trying PKG_LIBS+= >>> and >>> no spaces. There is mention of the libraries in Writing R Extensions, but >>> given >>> the heavy use of LAPACK, BLAS and FLIBS, perhaps this example should be >>> there >>> in the documentation. I've separately noted that Linux sessionInfo() shows >>> BLAS and LAPACK but Windows does not. >>> >>> Cheers, JN >>> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
