Start a MATLAB engine session
Fortran Syntax
integer*4 function engOpen(startcmd)
integer*4 ep
character*(*) startcmd
Arguments
ep
Engine pointer.
startcmd
Character array to start MATLAB process.
Description
This routine allows you to start a MATLAB process for the purpose of using MATLAB as a computational engine.
engOpen(startcmd) starts a MATLAB process using the command specified in startcmd, establishes a connection, and returns a unique engine identifier, or 0 if the open fails.
On the UNIX system, if startcmd is empty, engOpen starts MATLAB on the current host using the command matlab. If startcmd is a hostname, engOpen starts MATLAB on the designated host by embedding the specified hostname string into the larger string:
"rsh hostname \"/bin/csh -c 'setenv DISPLAY\
hostname:0; matlab'\""
If startcmd is anything else (has white space in it, or nonalphanumeric characters), it is executed literally to start MATLAB.
engOpen performs the following steps:
- 1
- Creates two pipes.
- 2
- Forks a new process and sets up the pipes to pass stdin and stdout from the
child to two file descriptors in the parent.
- 3
- Executes a command to run MATLAB (
rsh for remote execution).
Example
See fengdemo.f in the eng_mat subdirectory of the examples directory for a sample program that illustrates how to call the MATLAB engine functions from a Fortran program.
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