I will shortly commit a first shot a C++ support for add-on packages (to r-devel, of course). For me, installation of a trivial test package (basically consisting of the example in R-exts) works without problems. I'll put the package into CRAN's src/contrib/Devel for some time. If anyone knows about platform/compiler specific settings CXXPICFLAGS settings that configure needs to be taught, pls let me know. Building shared libs would be based on the following idea: if C++ code was found, then try using CXX as SHLIBLD (i.e. the C++ compiler for building the shared library). Alternatively, one would need to find out what C++ is linked against, which may be a pain. Anyway, I thought I'd collect some feedback and then maybe come up with something refined. -k -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._