From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Feb  7 23:42:53 2000
Subject: Re: Calling octave from within an external program
From: "Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj at alum dot mit dot edu>
To: piyush at its dot caltech dot edu
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 00:44:54 -0500

> Maybe i just haven't looked at the right places but i'd like to call
> some of the octave functions from C/C++ programs i have written.  I can
> do this in matlab using their math libraries.  Does octave have an
> equivalent.  If not, how would i do this?

I don't think Octave is designed for this (if it exists, that functionality
is not documented).  If you just want to use the matrix operations
(multiply, invert, eigenvalues, etcetera), you might consider directly
calling the same (free) libraries that Octave uses to implement its
operations: BLAS and LAPACK.  See www.netlib.org/lapack for more info.

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson




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