From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon Dec 16 11:00:31 2002
Subject: Re: foreign function interface
From: Per Persson <persquare at mac dot com>
To: "Lippert, Ross A." <Ross dot Lippert at celera dot com>
Cc: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at jazz dot ncnr dot nist dot gov>,    octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:00:26 +0100


On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 05:52 PM, Lippert, Ross A. wrote:

>
> What about, instead, something less ambitious, but almost as powerful. 
>  Suppose
> that one had an "instant oct-file" version of mkoctfile, which 
> produces a .oct
> wrapper for a given function from a given library given some signature 
> information
> (and perhaps C, C++, Fortran linkage information).  This 
> instant-octfile program
> would be run outside octave (or within octave via system()).
>

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but I think that matwrap does 
just that:
http://www-lnc.usc.edu/~holt/matwrap/

Regards,
Per

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