Building the Octave Interface

First obtain and build Octave. Octave is available from: http://www.octave.org

The user should use the configure option --with-octave-include to specify the path for the Octave include directory. You may also need to include the configure option --enable-shared when building Octave. The user should set the environment variable NETSOLVE_ROOT to the top-level NetSolve directory before building the interface. For instance;

UNIX> setenv NETSOLVE_ROOT /path/to/NetSolve

To build the Octave interface type:

UNIX> make octave

In the top-level NetSolve directory (NETSOLVE_ROOT). The following files will be created on a successful build: $NETSOLVE_ROOT/bin/$NETSOLVE_ARCH/NS_octave/netsolve.oct $NETSOLVE_ROOT/bin/$NETSOLVE_ARCH/NS_octave/netsolve_nb.oct $NETSOLVE_ROOT/bin/$NETSOLVE_ARCH/NS_octave/libnsoct.so The above files are the Octave interface to NetSolve and should be made accessible to Octave. In the following sections, the user will learn to call new functions netsolve() and netsolve_nb() from octave.