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Re: calling c++ or c from octave?
From: |
Sergei Steshenko |
Subject: |
Re: calling c++ or c from octave? |
Date: |
Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:57:18 -0800 (PST) |
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, Francis Poulin <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Francis Poulin <address@hidden>
> Subject: calling c++ or c from octave?
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 7:41 AM
> 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
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You may start from here: http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?CodaTutorial .
I am using a different approach - I am writing data in binary format from
"C" using "fwrite" and load the data into 'octave' using 'fopen', 'fread'
in 'octave'. Works like a charm.
Regards,
Sergei.