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Re: connect Octave to Fantom Driver library on Windows?
From: |
Michael Goffioul |
Subject: |
Re: connect Octave to Fantom Driver library on Windows? |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:58:35 +0100 |
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Michele Chabot <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to operate my Lego NXT robot using Octave and the Fantom Driver
> library (http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/support/files/Driver.aspx) on
> Windows.
> RWTH (http://www.mindstorms.rwth-aachen.de/) (GPL) does this already with
> MatLab in place of Octave, but it relies on MatLab features not available in
> Octave (calllib) to access the Fantom library.
> To accesses the fantom driver from Octave using OCT files, I could create
> .cc wrapper files to link with the fantom library, but since fantom supplies
> only Microsoft-compatible (header,lib and dll) files for windows, I assume
> this would not work.
Not necessarily. MinGW is able to use MSVC .lib files to compile code
(just try to include a .lib file to the link command). The main problem is
if the Fantom driver library is C++, that's not gonna work as MinGW and
MSVC are binary incompatible for C++ code. Should work fine with C code.
Michael.