[Developers] [ADMB Users] FW: myxomatosis example

[John Sibert]

I noticed on redmine that you added configure scripts for make contrib 
to the repository.
I seemed to work without drama on my Ubuntu. Very nice. Does Windoze 
support configure?

John

On 08/02/2011 11:02 AM, Johnoel Ancheta wrote:
> I may have a easy solution, but will need to test.  It involves 
> creating a contrib.lib and contrib.h that
> gets built with admb.  Easier for the end user...
>
> On 8/2/11 10:48 AM, Mark Maunder wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I thought that the idea was to have the contributed code compiled in 
>> the libraries, but not include the #include statement somewhere so 
>> that the user had to physically put the include statement in their 
>> tpl (similar to how an R user has to physically load the library). 
>> The messy part is having to use the whole path to the code and not 
>> just the name of the library
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: developers-bounces at admb-project.org 
>> [mailto:developers-bounces at admb-project.org] On Behalf Of John Sibert
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:41 PM
>> To: developers at admb-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [Developers] FW: myxomatosis example
>>
>> Well including stuff in the GLOBALS_SECTION does not seem 
>> particularly messy, Dave is correct the usual way is with a header 
>> file and a library.
>>
>> The practical question is how are the libraries assembled? Each 
>> OS/architecture/compiler combination brings unique problems. That is 
>> why we have the buildbot for the ADMB code. It might be feasible to 
>> include the contributed contribted code, but in my opinion the ADMB 
>> Project should not be responsible for maintenance of user-contributed 
>> code.
>> Could we ask code contributors to create an appropriate header file 
>> and a makefile to create a library for their code? If so then users 
>> of the contributed code would have the option of either including the 
>> source code in the tpl or customizing the makefile to build libraries 
>> appropriate to their system.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 08/01/2011 02:08 PM, dave fournier wrote:
>>> On 11-08-01 04:15 PM, Mark Maunder wrote:
>>>
>>> The usual way is to include a header file and then to link in a
>>> library with the compiled code.
>>>
>>>> Can anyone give advice on how to include user contributed libraries
>>>> in the Globals section. This looks too messy. Can't you just do
>>>> "#include ecolib"
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> *From:*Mollie Brooks [mailto:mbrooks at ufl.edu]
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, August 01, 2011 4:03 PM
>>>> *To:* Mark Maunder
>>>> *Subject:* myxomatosis example
>>>>
>>>> Hi Mark,
>>>>
>>>> I did an example from Ben's book. I'm also working on another one.
>>>> This one requires a vectorized version of the dgamma function which I
>>>> just added to Steve's statlib on the svn. I'd like any suggestions
>>>> you might have, especially on the globals section. I think the
>>>> developers should have a talk about making it as easy as possible for
>>>> users to include libraries from the contrib directory. Maybe these
>>>> should get moved to the include directory automatically when we
>>>> compile. Also, the library pow_vectorized_RE should probably be
>>>> incorporated into the core source.
>>>>
>>>> I did it using R2admb which currently doesn't work for windows, but
>>>> I'm hoping Ben will have it working later this month.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Mollie
>>>>
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