From help-request at octave dot org Tue Jun 7 09:02:56 2005 Subject: Help developing extensions From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D8ivind_Dahle?= To: help at octave dot org Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 04:11:39 -0500 Hi, I would be thankful for some advice / help on how to built extensions for Octave .. I would like to develop new C++ functions and reuse some old code, which I could run and test from within Octave. I currently run on Windows XP, and use Microsoft development tools. So all these questions are related to development and use on Windows XP. Which distribution to use, and how to install? Should I install Cygwin first and then Octave (ver 2.1.71), or could I use a distribution that make a complete Octave Windows installation? Any difference between the installations in terms of adding my own functions/code? Is there a standard interface/method for such, so I could say develop dll's that could be called from Octave trough som m-function? I believe this can be done in this way in Matlab. Is there a good description of how to interface/make extensions somewhere? Is knowledge of Unix/Linux advantageous/necessary/essential? Do I need to use special compilers and tools, or could I develop my extensions with Microsoft compilers/development tools? Thanx Oivind ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------