Using a shared library without an installed compiler?

Hello,

From Matlab, we are calling functions in a shared library via the loadlibrary function. That works fine.

The loadlibrary function however requires the user to provide a header file, and a compiler. Our customers do not all have a compiler installed, or are complaining if we request them to install a compiler in order to use our shared library. So my question is:

is there a way we can "do some preprocessing" (on our computer, with installed Matlab and compiler) so that a compiler is not needed anymore on the computer of our customers?

Thanks for any insight

Answer 1

[Philip Borghesani]

Load the library on your machine using the mfilename option to loadlibrary then supply the generated prototype file and thunk library to your customers who can load the library with the command:

loadlibrary(@prototype_file)

This also results in much faster loading of the library.

See help on loadlibrary for more information on prototype and thunk files.

Answer 2

[Marc]

Thanks a lot Philip,

that's exactly what I was looking for!