C language interface to octave (eng* function library)

[Jesse Bennett]

Hi,

Is there any octave support (or ongoing development) for an Octave
interface library?  I find that Matlab is very effective as a user
interface for much of the R&D that I am involved in, and I am interested
in the possibility of using octave for this work.  In other words, is
there any compatibility with the libmat.a functions eng*?  E.g.,

> nm /apps/matlab/extern/lib/sun4/libmat.a | grep eng
fengintf.o_sun4:
         U _engClose
         U _engEvalString
         U _engGetFull
         U _engGetMatrix
         U _engOpen
         U _engOutputBuffer
         U _engPutFull
         U _engPutMatrix
000000cc T _engclose_
0000002c T _engevalstring_

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Thanks in advance,
Jesse Bennett