External Interfaces

Compiling and Linking on Windows

To compile and link Fortran or C MAT-file programs, use the mex script with a MAT options file. The MAT options files reside in $MATLAB\bin\win32\mexopts and are named *engmatopts.bat, where * represents the compiler type (e.g., bcc for Borland, wat for Watcom, etc.).

For example, to compile and link the stand-alone MAT application matcreat.c using MSVC Version 7.1 on Windows, first copy the file

• $MATLAB\extern\examples\eng_mat\matcreat.c
  

(where $MATLAB is the MATLAB root directory) to a directory that is writable, and then use the following command to build it:

• mex -f $MATLAB\bin\win32\mexopts\msvc71engmatopts.bat matcreat.c
  

If you need to modify the options file for your particular compiler, use the -v switch to view the current compiler and linker settings and then make the appropriate changes in a local copy of the options file.

Compiling and Linking on UNIX

Required Files from Third-Party Sources

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