Re: Problems calling functions created with Matwrap

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 05:06:31PM +0100, Marco Gazzoni wrote:
> 
>  I'm using Octave (ver.2.0.16 under Debian ) to develop some methods for

[ That's a pretty old version. 2.0.17 is the last one in the now dormant 2.0
series of Octave. You may want to consider the 2.1.* branch of Octave where
2.1.50 is currently the recommended general-user version. I don't know of
Debian backports, though. ]

>  bio-signal processing.
>  Some algorithm are very time consuming and I have written them in C. Now I
>  need to call the functions from Octave.
>  I have installed Matwrap but I'm not able to run the compiled function from
>  Octave.
>  Then, I have written a very simple test function but it doesn't work.
> 
>  I have a header file test.h with the prototype of the function test:
> 
>  int test(int);
> 
>  And the source test.cc file:
> 
>  int test(int val)
>  {
>      val= val*2;
>      return(val);
>  }
> 
>  To create the needed interface and the library I use the following
> commands:
> 
>  matwrap -language octave test.h -o test_octave.cc -stub test_octave_stub.cc
>  mkoctfile test_octave.cc -lm
> 
>  All seems to work well and no error messages are diaplayed. The following
>  files are created:
>  Test.m, test_octave.cc, test_octave_stub.cc, test_octave.o, test_octave.oct
>  When I open Octave and I run "test" from the command line Octave crashes.
>  Where is the problem? Someone has some suggestions?

It's been a while, but I have used matwrap with success. Right now, I can
only recommend the following:

a) start from examples, e.g. the demos included in matwrap
b) expand those examples to use the data structures you need 
c) add copious debugging info (e.g. when entereing functions)
d) stay away from system names -- test is likely to collide so I'd use
   something like 'mgtest.*'
   
Hth, Dirk   

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