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Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2)
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Lukas Reichlin |
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Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2) |
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Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:01:11 +0100 |
On 12.02.2012, at 23:36, Lukas Reichlin wrote:
>
> On 12.02.2012, at 23:12, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> There is (or used to be) the PKG_DEL counterpart to PKG_ADD. But
>> what's missing is autounload (such feature request makes sense imo).
>> The other possibility is to put all the common code into a single
>> shared library, then link all oct-files to that library.
>>
>> Michael.
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I like your idea of a single shared library very much. Is it possible to
> create such a library out of SLICOT upon package installation? It would be
> nice if I could link it the same way as the BLAS and LAPACK libraries.
>
> Best regards,
> Lukas
PS: I would like to include the archive slicot.tar.gz [1] in my package. Then,
upon package installation, it should be unpacked and compiled to a library I
can link to. Until now, I have to add all files by hand, which is quite ugly
[2].
Lukas
[1] SLICOT Library
http://www.slicot.org/shared/slicot.tar.gz
[2] Makefile of the control package
http://octave.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/octave/trunk/octave-forge/main/control/src/Makefile?revision=9513&view=markup
- How to combine several functions in a single oct-file?, Lukas Reichlin, 2012/02/10
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file?, Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/10
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file?, Carlo de Falco, 2012/02/10
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file?, Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/12
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file?, Lukas Reichlin, 2012/02/12
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2),
Lukas Reichlin <=
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/12
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Lukas Reichlin, 2012/02/13
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/13
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Lukas Reichlin, 2012/02/13
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Michael Goffioul, 2012/02/13
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- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Lukas Reichlin, 2012/02/13
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), c., 2012/02/13
- Re: How to combine several functions in a single oct-file? (2), Lukas Reichlin, 2012/02/13