Re: Interface for C libs in Octave

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TOT <anaryusifov <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Short question: How to get access to C library (have both: static and shared
> with -fPIC) from Octave? I need to pass some values to some functions and
> get the results. Is there any HowTo or Example of it?

If you want to call c (with libraries to handle matrices and the like) functions
from an octave script, there are a couple of well established ways.  I have
never used them, but Octave comes with "oct" and "mex" extension frameworks, for
C++ and C respectively.  The latter corresponds to matlab's mex approach.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Getting-Started-with-Oct_002dFiles.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Mex_002dFiles.html

If you want to call octave from C code that is handling input and output, some
folks have worked on that, but I think it might be just as easy to use LAPACK or
some other library from within your (already written) program.

>From your post, I am not sure which approach you are hoping to take.

Good luck!