[Kst] Library for reading/writing MAT-files

[Andrea Arteaga]

Hi Nicolas.

Yes, I know matio, but when I had a look of it it seemed not to be
very active; good news that it now is.

In my university a group of mathematics wanted to have a C++ and easy
library, so I done it. In particular, my library automatically
writes/reads data from/to particular matrix objects, like Boost
matrices of eigen ones. So, no, Boost is not a dependency: you can use
my library to output Boost matrices or to input data into them, but
you don't need any Boost header or library if you don't want. The only
actual dependency (which I however plan to make optional, as soon as I
have some time) is zlib.

I'm running a few benchmarks on my computers, and therefore I will be
able to use Kst to visualize the data. Be sure that I will post some
feedback (again, as soon as I have some time...).

Cheers!
Andrea


2012/3/23 Nicolas Brisset <nicolas.brisset at free.fr>:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> yes, it is right. I have recently implemented support for reading Matlab files into Kst.
> I used the very nice matio C library for that. There is no website, but the project is active and the code well written and documented.
> You can find more info on http://sourceforge.net/projects/matio/
> I had some mail exchanges with the developer (you can find his email in the matio sources) and he even seems to be working on new features.
>
> I will have a look at your library, but I fear the information came a bit late...
> And you say there are no dependencies, but apparently there is boost, which is not so small, is it?
>
> Have you ever had a look at matio? I'd be interested to know how you consider the 2 projects, their respective advantages or disadvantages.
>
> Thanks anyway for the information, and be sure to give us some feedback is you use Kst now that you know it exists.
>
> Nicolas
>
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Andrea Arteaga" <andyspiros at gmail.com>
>> À: kst at kde.org
>> Envoyé: Vendredi 23 Mars 2012 22:00:26
>> Objet: [Kst]  Library for reading/writing MAT-files
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I just discovered your project reading the KDE Commit-Digest (yes, it
>> IS useful!). It's really interesting for us, scientific and
>> engineering users and I will take a deep look into it as soon as
>> possible.
>>
>> In the meanwhile, I read that you are implementing the support for
>> Matlab (and Octave) MAT files. My Bachelor Thesis is about
>> constructing a C++ library for data exchange through this type of
>> files and I actually wrote a portable, easy-to-use, dependency-free
>> and very generic library for that. If you want to have a look, there
>> is some documentation on my page[1] and the sources on BitBucket[2].
>> If you think this could be useful, I could help you using it. It does
>> not seem to be a maintained project, but it actually is.
>>
>> Thanks for your program!
>>
>> Best regards
>> Andrea Arteaga
>>
>> [1] http://n.ethz.ch/~arteagaa/matfile/
>> [2] https://bitbucket.org/spiros/matfile/wiki/Home
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