MATLAB Compiler

Building Shared Libraries

You can use mbuild to build C shared libraries on both UNIX and the PC. All of the mbuild options that pertain to creating stand-alone applications also pertain to creating C shared libraries.

To create a C shared library, specify one or more files with the .exports extension. The .exports files are text files that contain the names of the functions to export from the shared library, one per line. You can include comments in your code by beginning a line (first column) with # or a *.  mbuild treats these lines as comments and ignores them. mbuild merges multiple .exports files into one master exports list.

For example, given file1.exports as

• times2
  times3
  

and file1.c as

• int times2(int x)
  {
      return 2 * x;
  }
  
  int times3(int x)
  {
      return 3 * x;
  }
  

The command

• mbuild file1.c file1.exports
  

creates a shared library named file1.ext, where ext is the platform-dependent shared library extension. For example, on the PC, it would be called file1.dll. The shared library exports the symbols times2 and times3.

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