Re: Compiling .c code using mkoctfile

[Carlo De Falco]

Hi,

> On 6 Dec 2018, at 00:27, Colin Kikuchi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am trying to use mkoctfile to compile some .c source code. When I try to do 
> this, this message appears:
> 
> C:\Octave\OCTAVE~1.1\include\octave-4.4.1\octave/Array.h:30:10: fatal error: 
> cassert: No such file or directory
>  #include <cassert>

This #include statement is meant for C++ not C.

> I read some of the Octave support groups and it seems that this is because I 
> can't #include Octave headers in the source code. It isn't clear to me if 
> there is a good work around. Has anyone encountered this and worked out a fix 
> for how to easily compile .c code using mkoctfile?

Octave libraries are in C++, not C, so you cannot include their headers in your 
C code and compile with a C compiler.
Depending on what you want to do, you can either

* compile your C code with a C++ compiler (the easiest way to do so is  to 
rename it to .cc instead of .c)

* access Octave libraries via the mex interface (which is a Matlab compatible C 
API) as explained here : 
https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Mex_002dFiles.html#Mex_002dFiles

> Thank you!
> 
> -Colin

Hope this helps, if you need more in-depth help you should provide more info, 
or share the .c code you are trying to compile.

c.