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[Dag Lindbo <dag@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:46:58AM +0100, Dag Lindbo wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > (I used DOLFIN until a year ago and now I am happy to be using it again!)
> >
> > DOLFIN (C++) can be successfully integrated with Matlab via the MEX 
> > interface. I rearranged the Poisson demo and wrote a mex-wrapper around 
> > it so that the Poisson solver can be called as a regular Matlab 
> > function. This integration is quite convenient IMHO and I would be happy 
> > to share this little demo if someone is interested in how this is done.
>
> Interesting. Feel free to add code and/or instructions on the
> wiki. Make a new page and then add a link from the DOLFIN page
> somewhere at the bottom.

Ok!

> > Anyway, there was a tricky loading error due to missing symbols in 
> > libxml2. This turned out to be caused by the reference libxml2 makes to 
> > libz. The strange thing was that Matlab loads its internal version of 
> > libz (found in <matlab>/bin/<arch>/) which apparently is older and 
> > incompatible with current xml2. I just removed libz from Matlab so it 
> > loads the system-wide one instead.
> >
> > /Dag Lindbo, KTH
>
> ok, don't know what to do about this.

It is of course an issue with Matlab, but since it is was the only 
complication with compiling the MEX-files I thought I might make a note 
of it.

/Dag