engOpen (Fortran)
Start MATLAB engine session
Fortran Syntax
#include "engine.h" mwPointer engOpen(startcmd) character*(*) startcmd
Description
engOpen
starts a MATLAB® process for using MATLAB as a computational engine.
Windows Platforms
engOpen
launches MATLAB without a desktop. The function opens a COM channel to MATLAB. The MATLAB software you registered during installation starts. If you did not register
during installation, then see Register MATLAB as a COM Server.
UNIX Platforms
On UNIX® systems, engOpen
:
Creates two pipes.
Forks a new process. Sets up the pipes to pass
stdin
andstdout
from MATLAB (parent) software to two file descriptors in the engine program (child).Executes a command to run MATLAB software (
rsh
for remote execution).
Input Arguments
Output Arguments
Examples
To open an example, type:
edit([fullfile(matlabroot,"extern","examples","engmat","filename")]);
where filename
is:
fengdemo.F
for a Fortran example.
Version History
Introduced before R2006a