Re: connect Octave to Fantom Driver library on Windows?

[Michele Chabot]

Thank you very much for the pointer.   I'll give it a try.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:

Am Sonntag, 17. April 2011, 20:16:52 schrieb Michele Chabot:

> Hello,
> I would like to operate my Lego NXT robot using Octave and the Fantom
> Driver library
> (http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/support/files/Driver.aspx) on Windows.
>
> RWTH (http://www.mindstorms.rwth-aachen.de/) (GPL) does this already with
> MatLab in place of Octave, but it relies on MatLab features not available
> in Octave (calllib) to access the Fantom library.
>
> To accesses the fantom driver from Octave using OCT files, I could create
> .cc wrapper files to link with the fantom library, but since fantom
> supplies only Microsoft-compatible (header,lib and dll) files for windows,
> I assume this would not work.
>
> Is there a way control my NXT robot using the binary version of Octave for
> Windows?
> Thanks,
>  Michele

I do not know if that works directly, since you said it is MS compatible only
using mex or oct files.

If nobody else has a better idea you can try an indirect way using the octave
java package.
There is a java wrapper available for the driver at
https://code.google.com/p/jbrick/downloads/list