From help-octave-request at che dot utexas dot edu  Fri Dec  9 10:32:58 1994
Subject: Re: Octave help 
From: John Eaton <jwe at che dot utexas dot edu>
To: Alessandro De Gloria <adg at dibe dot unige dot it>
cc: help-octave at che dot utexas dot edu
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 94 10:32:32 CST

Alessandro De Gloria <adg at dibe dot unige dot it> wrote:

: I have a program written in Matlab with some function compiled in C.
: 
: How can I port my application to octave. Does Octave have an utility for
: running function compiled in C?

Version 1.0 does not support externally compiled fuctions.

Version 1.1 will have limited support for this if you are running
Octave on a system that supports the GNU dynamic linker DLD.
Unfortunately, DLD does not currently work on very many systems.  I
have heard that someone is working on it though, so this situation may
eventually improve.

The interface is not at all like Matlab's Mex file interface (it is
probably possible to emulate it, but I am not particularly interested
in working on that myself).

Yes, version 1.1 will eventually be released, though I can't say for
sure exactly when it will happen.

Thanks,

jwe