Question

Qt 4.6.1

In the following .pro file, when I use the statement

sources = ef.cpp

I get following errors:

RInside.h: No such file or directory

Then when I replace = with := like:

sources := ef.cpp

the above error vanishes, and I get a new error:

error: undefined reference to qMain(int, char**)

From here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/448939/462608

VARIABLE = value Normal setting of a variable – values within it are
recursively expanded when the variable is used, not when it’s declared

VARIABLE := value Setting of a variable with simple expansion of the
values inside – values within it are expanded at declaration time.

I wish to understand what’s happening here, and what’s the solution.

.cpp

#include <RInside.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) 
{
    RInside R(argc, argv);

    R["txt"] = "Hello, world!\n";

    R.parseEvalQ ("cat(txt)");

    exit(0);
}

.pro

TEMPLATE    = app
TARGET      = 
DEPENDPATH  += .
INCLUDEPATH += .

R_HOME  := 'c:/R-2.15.1'

# Input
sources  = ef.cpp
programs := $(sources:.cpp=)

## include headers and libraries for R
RCPPFLAGS :=        $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config --cppflags)
RLDFLAGS  :=        $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config --ldflags)
RBLAS     :=        $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config BLAS_LIBS)
RLAPACK   :=        $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config LAPACK_LIBS)

## include headers and libraries for Rcpp interface classes
RCPPINCL  :=        $(shell echo 'Rcpp:::CxxFlags()' | $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) --vanilla 

--slave)
RCPPLIBS  :=        $(shell echo 'Rcpp:::LdFlags()'  | $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) --vanilla --slave)


## include headers and libraries for RInside embedding classes
RINSIDEINCL :=      $(shell echo 'RInside:::CxxFlags()' | $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) --vanilla --slave)
RINSIDELIBS :=      $(shell echo 'RInside:::LdFlags()'  | $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) --vanilla --slave)


## compiler etc settings used in default make rules
CXX        := $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config CXX)
CPPFLAGS   := -Wall $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config CPPFLAGS)
#CXXFLAGS  := $(RCPPFLAGS) $(RCPPINCL) $(RINSIDEINCL) $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) 

CMD config CXXFLAGS)
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS := $(RCPPFLAGS) $(RCPPINCL) $(RINSIDEINCL) $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config CXXFLAGS)
LDFLAGS    = -s
QMAKE_LIBS := $(RLDFLAGS) $(RBLAS) $(RLAPACK) $(RINSIDELIBS) $(RCPPLIBS)
CC         := $(shell $(R_HOME)/bin/R $(R_ARCH) CMD config CXX)

Answer 1

This doesn’t look like a Qt project, so you should probably disable linking against Qt libs. Set QT and CONFIG to be empty:

QT =
CONFIG =

If on other hand this is a Qt project that should link against Qt libraries, then the problem is that you’re overwriting vital variables, like QMAKE_LIBS and QMAKE_CXXFLAGS. Use +=, not :=. Also, use LIBS, not QMAKE_LIBS.