From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 28 02:32:59 1999
Subject: Re: An octave perl module?
From: Michael Preminger <michael dot preminger at jbi dot hioslo dot no>
To: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>
CC: "Haisam K. Ido" <h dot ido at intelsat dot int>,         "help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:38:42 +0000

If I understand it correctly, Heisam wants to use Octave as a calculator
for number crunching applications implemented  with scripts. Given this,
Swig could be used if Octave provided library functions that can be used
in a stand alone manner, (link the library, use functions in stand alone
and obtain results) and do not require the Octave environment to run
under.

Now my question: Does Octave provide this option?

Thanks!

Daniel Heiserer wrote:

> Haisam K. Ido wrote:
> >
> > Is there an octave perl module?
>
> As far as I know not.
> But that is something I would be very interested too.
> There were a little discussion about that some time ago.
>
> The thing is, it is probably not too difficult to do that.
> Look at swig:
>
> http://www.swig.org/
>
> it is a "Software wrapper interface generator" which creates
> a module for /perl/tcl/phyton/...../ out of a bunch of c-code.
> It was done for matlab (look at the examples).
> And I think there would be tremendous benefit of it.
>
> One of the first examples was
> http://www.supercomp.org/sc96/proceedings/SC96PROC/BEAZLEY/INDEX.HTM
> that was probably were they used it with matlab.
>
> Bye
>
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