Re: foreign function interface

[Per Persson]

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

------------
Per Persson
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Dept. of Signal Processing and Telecommunications

www:   http://www.its.bth.se/staff/pee
e-mail: address@hidden