Mex Extensions

[Thomas Treichl]

Hi,

my posting here
   http://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2006-December/002587.html
has never been answered therefore I send it modified again to this list:

- Is it possible to add #defines for
    mwSize (=int), mwIndex (=int), true and false
  to the mex sources (the mex.h file) for compatibility with LabMat?
  If I only use #include <mex.h> I cannot see these defines.

- I miss one of the great octave features in the mex-interface that I could
  imagine to be added: The help string implementation like that one I can
  use with the DLD. I could imagine to either use something like

    #ifndef MATLAB
      mexSetHelpOctave ("help-string and tests and demos");
    #endif

  or something more complicated like

    #ifndef MATLAB
      mexOctave (int nlhs, ...mxArray* prhs[], const char *octavehelptext)
    #else
      mexFunction (int nlhs, ...mxArray* prhs[])
    #end

  to be able to use the "help"-, the "test"- and the "demo"-command in octave
  (and none of these commands in LabMat - cause I am coding octave). I could
  imagine to compile one and the same written mex function with octave
    mkoctfile --mex file.c
  and with LabMat
    mex -DMATLAB file.c

  or something that way. Of course you could say that this has nothing to
  do with the original mex-interface from LabMat, but does it make sense
  to not add support for this great octave feature?

Thanks, Thomas