Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file?

[Carlo de Falco]

2012/2/10 Lukas Reichlin <address@hidden>:
> Dear Octave community,
>
> I noticed that "which arrayfun" points to cellfun.oct (octave 3.6.0). This 
> means that both arrayfun and cellfun are stored in a single oct-file. Now I 
> wonder how octave knows that it finds arrayfun in cellfun.oct? Does octave 
> load all oct-files on startup? I thought that a function "foo" has to be 
> located in foo.m, foo.oct or in the same m-file as the calling function.
>
> Background: My control package has dozens of oct-files and I like to combine 
> them in just a few oct-files. They all use the SLICOT Fortran library and I 
> compiled the required parts of it into every single oct-file. I think it 
> would be better if the Fortran code would be stored in one big oct-file that 
> offers all the user functions. Like cellfun.oct.
>
> Thanks for any insights and best regards,
> Lukas
>

Have a look at the command "autoload", it should do what you ask,
you can also look at the PKG_ADD commands in packages combinatorics
and odepkg for inspiration.

If you use this approach, be aware that it has some side effects:
http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/reverse-of-autoload-tp1635126p1635126.html

HTH,
c.