Re: calling c++ or c from octave?

[David Bateman]

Francis Poulin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I do research that involves a lot of number crunching.  I often write  
> or run codes in fortran/c to produce data that I then visualize and  
> analyze using octave.  It's a bit cumbersome at times going back and  
> forth and I wonder whether it is possible to do everything within  
> octave.
>
> I have read somewhere that it is possible to call programs written in c 
> ++ (or perhaps c?) from octave.  Is that true?  If so where can I find  
> a good tutorial on how to do this?  I found one or two on the web but  
> when I actually got around to trying it, the codes didn't actually  
> compile.  If there is a tutorial that someone could point out that  
> would be super. I am willing to learn c++ if I can have the easy  
> functionality of octave with the fast number crunching ability of a  
> lower level language.
>
> Cheers,
> Francis
>   

See

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Dynamically-Linked-Functions.html

D.


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