call octave from C++ - linker error

[Miklos Espak]

Hi,

I want to execute a MatLab script with Octave. I tried to build the example on the wiki page but I get linker error.

address@hidden:~/tmp/octave$ g++ -L /usr/lib/octave-3.2.4 -loctinterp -lcruft -loctave -ooctavetest OctaveTest.cpp 

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/octave-3.2.4/liboctinterp.so: undefined reference to symbol 'MatrixType::~MatrixType()'

/usr/bin/ld: note: 'MatrixType::~MatrixType()' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/octave-3.2.4/liboctave.so so try adding it to the linker command line

/usr/lib/octave-3.2.4/liboctave.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation

collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I have installed the Ubuntu 11.10 Octave packages.

The source is the following:

#include <iostream>

#include <octave/oct.h>

#include <octave/octave.h>

#include <octave/parse.h>

#include <octave/toplev.h> /* do_octave_atexit */

int main(int argc, char** argv) {

  const char * argvv [] = {"" /* name of program, not relevant */, "--silent"};

  

  octave_main (2, (char **) argvv, true /* embedded */);

  octave_value_list functionArguments;

  functionArguments (0) = 2;

  functionArguments (1) = "D. Humble";

  Matrix inMatrix (2, 3);

  inMatrix (0, 0) = 10;

  inMatrix (0, 1) = 9;

  inMatrix (0, 2) = 8;

  inMatrix (1, 0) = 7;

  inMatrix (1, 1) = 6;

  functionArguments (2) = inMatrix;

  const octave_value_list result = feval ("exampleOctaveFunction", functionArguments, 1);

  std::cout << "resultScalar is " << result (0).scalar_value () << std::endl;

  std::cout << "resultString is " << result (1).string_value () << std::endl;

  std::cout << "resultMatrix is\n" << result (2).matrix_value ();

  do_octave_atexit ();

}

Does anybody have an idea why the destructor definition is not found by the linker?

Thanks,

Miklos