mexing in Fortran

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Jan-2011, address@hidden wrote:

| I have been searching for a long time to directly mex a fortran file with 
| mkoctfile -mex without success.
| As a typical example, I have been trying to mex the famous timestwo.F example 
| from the other product.
| 
| Of course, mexing in c and in c++ works very well and besides ".oct" files 
also 
| works fine and it is the method I use usually.
| 
| But let's assume that I would need to mex a .F or a .F90 file, is there an 
| direct way to do it with mkoctfile without using a C warper around the 
fortran 
| file ?

Octave's internal MEX interface doesn't support the Fortran MEX
interface.

If this is important to you, maybe you would be willing to work on
adding the Fortran MEX interface to Octave?

jwe