Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 13:12:59 +1000 (EST) From: Phillip Musumeci <phillip@pm.cse.rmit.EDU.AU> To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matlab for linux and freebsd Message-ID: <199805020312.NAA05599@mirriwinni.cse.rmit.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980430161318.18486L-100000@cole.salk.edu> (message from Tom Bartol on Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:21:27 -0700 (PDT))
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu> 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
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