Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] execute MATLAB code with mlab_call

[Dev Ramudit]

Greg Troxel wrote:
>         I've been working with a colleague who works mostly in MATLAB
>   to prototype and test the work we're doing, so I've written a block
>   that uses the MATLAB engine interface to execute MATLAB code as part
>   of a flowgraph. 
>
> I wonder if you could make this work with octave.  MATLAB is decidedly
> non-Free, and thus I'd expect that any support to interoperate with
> MATLAB probably wouldn't be eligble for integration into the tree.
>
> How do you link this in such a way that you can follow the GPL and
> distribute it?

It seems like octave has a similar interface 
(http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CategoryExternal under OctaveEngine), 
which could be used in a way very similar to the code I have.

I know that there exists other projects under open licenses that use the 
MATLAB engine API (pylab, mlabwrap, ruby-matlab, etc.). I'm not well 
versed in licensing issues, but reading through the MATLAB software 
license I don't see any issues with linking to the shared objects the 
interface provides. I'm very inexperienced in this area, so please let 
me know if I'm incorrect.


Thanks,
Dev