Re: Using Octave from LabVIEW on Windows

[Michael Goffioul]

On 9/6/07, Anderson, Gregg T CIV USAF AFRL/MLPJ
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi,
> I'm interested in knowing whether Octave can be accessed from LabVIEW
> running on Windows. I am not new to LabVIEW but I am new to Octave. Here's
> my question: can a person be in LabVIEW and come to a point where, say, a
> curve-fitting routine is needed and LabVIEW hands the calculation over to
> Octave, then Octave does its analysis and curve fit and returns a number
> back to LabVIEW? I've explored the Octave mailing lists and came across DCOM
> in this connection. Is DCOM the only way for LabVIEW and Octave to
> communicate if both are on the same machine?

I guess this depends on LabVIEW. If LabVIEW is able to "popen" an external
program (like Octave), you should be able to do it with some pipe communication.

Michael.