[Pkg-octave-devel] Dynare: git, matlab, testsuite

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> [2009-05-25 15:37]:

> On 25-May-2009, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 
> | For the MEX functions, we have no way of linking against the Matlab  
> | library from pure Debian.
> 
> Do you actually need to?  I've built MEX files on a system without
> Octave or Matlab, and then run the resulting MEX file with both Octave
> and Matlab.  I think all you really need is a mex.h header file that
> provides the declarations of the functions you will need.  The mxArray
> object can be treated as a purely opaque object because all actions
> that you can perform on an mxArray object are done via functions that 
> take pointers to mxArray objects, so you can declare mxArray as void.

Yes, that was my understanding too.  However, as you wrote:

> But maybe there is some detail that I'm missing.

Same thing with me.

-- 
Rafael