From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri May 1 20:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21600 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 20:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (pm.cse.rmit.EDU.AU [131.170.118.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21594 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 20:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phillip@pm.cse.rmit.EDU.AU) Received: (from phillip@localhost) by mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA05599; Sat, 2 May 1998 13:12:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from phillip) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 13:12:59 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199805020312.NAA05599@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> From: Phillip Musumeci To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Tom Bartol on Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:21:27 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: matlab for linux and freebsd Reply-to: phillip@rmit.edu.au Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Bartol writes: Tom> Matlab -- the software you lease with an option to... lease again, Tom> of course, what else! True :-) I also exchanged a few emails with the mathworks when they were choosing a PC based unix (like) platform to support, but they appeared uninterested in facts such as "SunOS is similar to *BSD - maybe a *BSD port is easier" etc. Tom> Both SciLab and Octave are in the ports collection. They're both Tom> quite nice! If you can possibly do without Matlab then, please, Tom> do yourself a favor! SciLAB and octave are both good packages, with octave offering close compatibility at a language/script level. Many matlab m-files run under octave. I understand that SciLAB also features a dynamic library that adds matlab compatibility. Another product, though not free, is available from The Mathtools Inc. people. They have developed a matlab compiler that turns matlab code into C++ code which, compiled with their libraries, gives native executables. It works well on FreeBSD (I haven't used the most recent version but they support GNU C platforms). These folk beat the Mathworks in offering a matlab compiler, and they also offered extra data types well ahead of any similar matlab offering (with Mathtools, you could manipulate image data and choose how many bytes represented a pixel). If you like C syntax, then also check out RLaB which has been written mostly by Ian Searle while he was with Boeing in Seattle and later at AMC. The main ftp site is ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/i/ians/rlab/sources The RLaB home page can be accessed via http://www.eskimo.com/~ians [personal bias: I wrote part of the original RLaB Primer]. phillip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message