Dear Akshit, in the configure script of my package RcppCWB, I use the command line call 'R CMD config ...' to get the installation flags.
Calling 'R CMD config' will display options. For your scenario, you can use 'R CMD config CPPFLAGS' to get the value of CPPFLAGS. To call R CMD config safely, you will need to prepend $R_HOME/bin. In the configure script of RcppCWB, I need to detect the compiler used and I do it using this snippet: CC_R=`$R_HOME/bin/R CMD config CC` More experienced people following R-package-devel than myself may be aware of a better solution, and I would also be happy to learn about it. Kind regards Andreas Am 15.08.20, 16:25 schrieb "R-package-devel im Auftrag von Akshit Achara" <r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org im Auftrag von acharaaks...@gmail.com>: Hi everyone, Background: The package rminizinc <https://github.com/acharaakshit/RMiniZinc> provides an interface to MiniZinc <https://www.minizinc.org/tutorial/minizinc-tute.pdf> in R. The package provides various functionalities to parse, solve and manipulate MiniZinc models. This is done by using the MiniZinc C++ API (libminizinc <https://github.com/MiniZinc/libminizinc>). The installation requires linking of the library an including the header files for which PKG_LIBS flag(-L/path/to/libminizinc -lmzn) , and PKG_CPPFLAGS (-I/path/to/libminizinc/include) are filled in Makevars.in which is set by configure based on the path of the library provided by the user using --configure-args or if the user doesn't provide any arguments, a default path is passed from configure (using configure.ac). Question: In one of my Rcpp functions mzn_parse() which is used to parse MiniZinc models, I sometimes need to use the files in the subdirectories of the libminizinc library. To access these files, I need to use the path of libminizinc (which can change per installation). I want to extract this path from either Makevars or configure to use it in my package. Is there any way I could retrieve this path in my scripts? Please let me know if this question is not relevant to the mailing list. The Makevars.in looks like this: CXX_STD = CXX11 PKG_CPPFLAGS = -I. @MZN_INCLUDE@ PKG_LIBS = @MZN_LIBS@ OBJECTS.tests = cpp_tests/test-runner.o cpp_tests/test-mzn_parse.o cpp_tests/test- set_params.o cpp_tests/test-mzn_eval.o cpp_tests/test-sol_parse.o cpp_tests/test- getMissingPars.o OBJECTS.sources = RcppExports.o set_params.o mzn_parse.o mzn_eval.o sol_parse.o getMissingPars.o OBJECTS.helpers = filetoString.o helper_parse.o expDetails.o pathStringcheck.o OBJECTS = $(OBJECTS.sources) $(OBJECTS.tests) $(OBJECTS.helpers) $(SOURCES:.cpp=.o) strippedLib: $(SHLIB) if test -e "/usr/bin/strip"; then /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug $(SHLIB); fi.phony: strippedLib all: clean clean: rm -f $(OBJECTS.sources) $(OBJECTS.tests) $(OBJECTS.helpers) *.so Thanks! [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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