RMercury: A Mercury repository from fabnicol

An R interface for Mercury

The module is labelled 'ri' for 'R Interface'.

Status

Preliminary design and programming completed.
Currently the library builds and linked programs build with it (30 April 2021).
univ-based procedures to be fixed.

Prerequisites

A recent version development of R (> 2.4), installed with common dependencies.
R should have been built from source with:
```
  $ ./configure --enable-R-shlib
```
The configuration file config.h should replace the one distributed at the root of the source directory. Alternatively, you may use a standard R distribution, provided that libR.so is installed. In this case, please adjust config.h manually to your platform paths and dependencies.
If R is not at least 4.0, the header files in the root directory should be replaced from a fresh R source package (they are not normally distributed as public headers).
GCC (8+)

Build

It should be built as follows:

First check file Mercury options, and adjust paths and library names according to your platform specifications.
Run at the root of the source directory:
```
     $ mmc --make libri.install
```

If the build is successful, libraries are to be found under local/lib/mercury/lib/{*.gc}

To build a Mercury project against these libraries:

     $ mmc … --search-lib-files-dir local/lib/mercury/lib/hlc.gc \
             --init-file local/lib/mercury/modules/hlc.gc/ri.init \
             --link-object local/lib/mercury/lib/hlc.gc/libri.a \
             --ld-flags "-lR -lRblas" \
     yourfile.m
                            …

Change 'hlc.gc' to the appropriate build grade (like possibly 'asm_fast.gc'). You will need a GC grade (this is unchecked in the build process). You will have to erase '-lRblas' from the above if R has been built without libRblas. You need to make sure the library ‘libri.a’ and the main program were compiled in the same grade.

fabnicol/RMercury

An R interface for Mercury

Status

Prerequisites

Build