Help developing extensions

[Øivind Dahle]

Hi,

I would be thankful for some advice / help on how to built extensions for
Octave ..

I would like to develop new C++ functions and reuse some old code, which I
could run and test from within Octave. I currently run on Windows XP, and
use Microsoft development tools. So all these questions are related to
development and use on Windows XP.

Which distribution to use, and how to install? Should I install Cygwin first
and then Octave (ver 2.1.71),
 or
could I use a distribution that make a complete Octave Windows installation?
Any difference between the installations in terms of adding my own
functions/code?

Is there a standard interface/method for such, so I could say develop dll's
that could be called from Octave trough som m-function? I believe this can
be done in this way in Matlab.

Is there a good description of how to interface/make extensions somewhere?

Is knowledge of Unix/Linux advantageous/necessary/essential?

Do I need to use special compilers and tools, or could I develop my
extensions with Microsoft compilers/development tools?

Thanx
Oivind



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