Error in .shlib_internal(args) : C++17 standard requested but CXX17 is not defined

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I have a project here

that uses c++17. I’ve specified c++17 everywhere in the package I can think of but travis does not pick it up. It of course builds fine locally.

@jeroen @jimhester

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(For the record, a sample affected build is https://travis-ci.org/thk686/kdtools/builds/633605593)

Judging by https://github.com/stan-dev/rstan/issues/569, https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-exts.html#Using-C_002b_002b17-code and https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/scripts/config, CXX17 should be set in ~/.R/Makevars to an appropriate compiler.

@jeroen @jimhester Perhaps the stock configuration created by the addon should include that.

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For c++17 support you will need to install a appropriate version of gcc (at least 7) and then set CXX17, CXX17STD etc. in your personal ~/.R/Makevars file to point to the appropriate compiler. The default values for this macro is set when R is installed, and the compilers in the default travis image for ubuntu 16.04 do not have support for c++17.

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According to https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-toolchain-r/+archive/ubuntu/test?field.series_filter=xenial, GCC 7 can be installed in Xenial with:

addons:
  apt:
    sources:
      - sourceline: 'ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test'
    packages:
      - gcc-7

The compiler will be available as gcc-7.

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OK Finally figured it out. Thanks for your help.

# R for travis: see documentation at https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/r

language: R
cache: packages

before_install:
  - mkdir -p ~/.R
  - echo 'CXX17 = g++-7 -std=gnu++17 -fPIC' > ~/.R/Makevars

addons:
  apt:
    sources:
      - sourceline: 'ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test'
    packages:
      - g++-7

after_success:
  - Rscript -e 'covr::codecov()'
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