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From: "Steven Lord" <slord@mathworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Last drop in a user's patience
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:23:05 -0500
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"Praetorian" <ashish.sadanandan@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:d1e62298-ffa0-446d-bd51-78932c271033@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

*snip*

> That being said, it is still very silly of TMW to issue that warning
> over a file naming convention! I'm still using R2007b but it'd be very
> annoying if I started seeing that warning every time I tried to load a
> dll in a future version. Wonder if it does that even for dlls that do
> not export the mexFunction interface i.e. dlls that are not mex files?

As far as I know, you can't directly invoke DLLs (or files with a MEXEXT 
extension) at the command prompt unless they have the mexFunction interface. 
I'm not sure if the generic shared library interface (LOADLIBRARY) only 
accepts those libraries with the appropriate platform-specific shared 
library extension or if you can specify a different extension.

-- 
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com