Category: C programming

• MEX file generator

  I just posted a script in Matlab Central that generates a .c file that can be compiled with mex based on a snippet of (purely numeric) C code and a definition of the arguments to the function. In the file description I show how to write a recursive (IIR) filter in 3 lines of C…

  May 3, 2011

• Getting gcc to work with Matlab in Ubuntu to compile mex files

  Matlab R2009b, Lucid Lynx My version of gcc (4.4) is too high for Matlab R2009b (4.1 and 4.2), and Matlab chokes on it. The solution is as follows: Install gcc-4.2: sudo apt-get install gcc-4.2 sudo apt-get install g++-4.2 In matlab, run mex -setup and select the GCC compiler (I believe you will have to have…

  May 7, 2010