Re: Implementing loadlibrary function in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/17/2013 12:49 PM, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Looks like loading a C library from Octave using loadlibrary is not
> supported yet. I would like to spend some time and try to implement
> loadlibrary and related functions. Not sure how the outcome will be as
> I am new to Octave code. Will it be useful to the Octave community if
> it is implemented? If it will be useful I can work on it. I will also
> communicate with the community about the progress, doubts etc
> frequently.
>
> My idea is to start doing small contribution and then move on to
> implement bigger features. If this feature is going to be big for a
> newbie then I will try to find some other small stuff that I can
> implement.

We had some discussions about this in the last year.  Search the 
maintainers list archive for messages with the subject lines

  Functions from Matlab C shared library utility

and

  Implementation of libpointer

In July, August, and September.

You should check with the person who started those threads to see what
progres has been made.

As I recall, one problem is that implementing these functions in a way
that is compatible with Matlab requires classdef-style classes and we
don't really have that in Octave yet.

jwe