I am trying to create a shared object I can load into R that calls Rust functions by way of R's C API. To call Rust from C, I am following this blog post. My problem arises when I try to create the shared library and link to the Rust library. The linker complains that it can't find my Rust function. I am quite new to compiled languages and have given this a couple days' worth of effort before turning to SO. In that time I have learned a lot about compiler flags and yet come no closer to a solution. I think it may be something obvious.

My C++ code:

#include "Rinternals.h"
#include "R.h"
#include "treble.h"

// test.cpp
extern "C" {

SEXP triple(SEXP val) {

    int32_t ival = *INTEGER(val);
    Rprintf("9 tripled is %d\n", treble(ival));
    return R_NilValue;
}

}

treble.h:

#include <stdint.h>

int32_t treble(int32_t value);

My Rust code:

#![crate_type = "dylib"]

#[no_mangle]
pub extern fn treble(value: i32) -> i32 {
  value * 3
}

This is what I'm doing on the command line:

$ rustc glue.rs
$ g++ -shared test.cpp -o test.so -I/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Headers -L/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Libraries -L. -lR -lglue
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "treble(int)", referenced from:
      _triple in test-dac64b.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Inspecting the object file that rust creates:

$ nm -gU libglue.dylib
...
0000000000001750 T _treble