Re: [Fwd: Calling Octave from C++]

[Josep Monés i Teixidor]

Bona tarda Xavier,

Xavier Amatriain wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are developing a C++ framework for Music and Audio Processing
> (www.iua.upf.es/mtg/clam).
>
> Our users have continuously requested to add a feature of being able to
> call external Matlab functions from within the framework. We have been
> reluctant to do so. One of the main reasons is that ours is a Free
> Software environment and we do not feel like offering support for a
> non-Free tool. That is why I was thinking on offering support for Octave
> instead and promote the use of this great tool instead of Matlab.
>
> But by reading this mailing list archive I see that calling Octave from
> C++ is not very feasible. If I understand right there is no problem in
> calling standard functions already implemented in liboctave but it is
> not that easy with new .m files provided by the user.
>
>  

Just to give another possibility, although I haven't tested it myself, 
it'd consider trying to integrate Jens Ruecknagel's "octave to c++ 
compiler" [1]  too, if the subset of octave it implements is enough and 
if you want efficiency. I haven't tried but depending on your 
requirements it could be a nice try.

The users would need to compile their scripts somehow in order to make 
this work though.

[1] http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~rueckn/

Good luck!

Josep



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