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Calling MATLAB Software from C and Fortran Programs

The MATLAB engine library contains routines that allow you to call MATLAB software from your own programs, thereby employing MATLAB as a computation engine. Engine programs are C or Fortran programs that communicate with a separate MATLAB process via pipes, on UNIX^[1] systems, and through a Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) interface, on Microsoft Windows systems. MATLAB provides a library of functions that allows you to start and end the MATLAB process, send data to and from MATLAB, and send commands to be processed in MATLAB.

• Using the MATLAB Engine to Call MATLAB Software from C and Fortran Programs

• Examples of Calling Engine Functions

• Compiling and Linking MATLAB Engine Programs

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Debugging Fortran Source MEX-Files

Using the MATLAB Engine to Call MATLAB Software from C and Fortran Programs

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