From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Thu Jan 28 03:24:56 1999
Subject: Re: An octave perl module?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Michael Preminger <michael dot preminger at jbi dot hioslo dot no>
Cc: Daniel Heiserer <Daniel dot Heiserer at bmw dot de>,         "Haisam K. Ido" <h.ido@intelsat.int>,         "help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu" <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 03:24:26 -0600 (CST)

On 28-Jan-1999, Michael Preminger <michael dot preminger at jbi dot hioslo dot no> wrote:

| 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?

It is possible to use Octave's numerical libraries separately from the
Octave interpreter, but it doesn't work as well as it could.  The
biggest problem right now is that liboctave depends on some other
non-numerical libraries like readline, glob, etc.  Eventually, I hope
this can be fixed so that using Octave's C++ numerical libraries only
requires liboctave (the C++ stuff) and libcruft (the Fortran stuff).

jwe