I only know how to do this on macOS where you can do

brew install chipmunk

You may also need to update/install your xcode tools - see here

Thanks to tylermorganwall for the following instructions

I spun up an RStudio AMI on AWS to try and install chipmunkcore and was successful. Here’s my instructions:

First we need to install cmake if it’s not already installed, along with some other pre-reqs:

sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev

Now we install the Chipmunk2D library:

git clone https://github.com/slembcke/Chipmunk2D
cd Chipmunk2D
cmake .
make

And finally, symlink the header files and shared object library so R can find it during installation. The path /home/rstudio/Chipmunk2D will be different depending on where you installed the Chipmunk2D folder.

sudo ln -s /home/rstudio/Chipmunk2D/include/chipmunk /usr/share/R/include/chipmunk
sudo ln -s /home/rstudio/Chipmunk2D/src/libchipmunk.so /usr/lib/R/lib/libchipmunk.so

Thanks to Henrik Bengtsson for the following instructions.

These instructions should work on most Linux systems.

Following the instructions on https://github.com/slembcke/Chipmunk2D:

Before we can install the software, we need to build it:

curl -L -O https://github.com/slembcke/Chipmunk2D/archive/Chipmunk-7.0.3.tar.gz
tar xf Chipmunk-7.0.3.tar.gz
cd Chipmunk2D-Chipmunk-7.0.3
cmake .
make

Now we can install it. If we have admin rights, we can install it system-wide as:

sudo make install

You’re done!

If we only have non-privileged user rights on the system, then sudo make install will give an error. Instead, we have to install to a folder where we have write permissions. This can be done by specifying the CMake-specific environment variable DESTDIR:

mkdir -p "$HOME/software/Chipmunk-7.0.3"
make DESTDIR="$HOME/software/Chipmunk-7.0.3" install

For other software to be able to compile toward Chipmunk2D, we need to update a few standard environment variable:

export CPATH="$HOME/software/Chipmunk-7.0.3/usr/local/include:${CPATH}"
export LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/software/Chipmunk-7.0.3/usr/local/lib:${LIBRARY_PATH}"

If you got this far, you should be able to install chipmunkcore in R:

# install.package('remotes')
remotes::install_github('coolbutuseless/chipmunkcore')

Now, in order for compiled software to find the Chipmunk2D library files when running, we also need to add:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/software/Chipmunk-7.0.3/usr/local/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"

If you got, you will be able to use the chipmunkcore package:

> library(chipmunkcore)
>

If you get:

> library(chipmunkcore)
Error: package or namespace load failed for 'chipmunkcore' in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/home/alice/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0-custom/chipmunkcore/libs/chipmunkcore.so':
libchipmunk.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

then LD_LIBRARY_PATH is either not set or set incorrect.

Tips: Append the above export ... lines to your ~/.bashrc so set them automatically.

If you know how to install the Chipmunk2d C library on Windows, and subsequently compile this package, please let me know by filing an issue, or pinging me on twitter. Thanks!