mboct-octave-pkg^©

mboct-octave-pkg belongs to a suite of packages which can be used for pre- and postprocessing of MBDyn models (https://www.mbdyn.org) with GNU-Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/). It contains general purpose utility functions used in all mboct-*-pkg packages.

List of features

• Start multiple processes using fork/exec on Linux and spawn on Windows systems.
• Wait for the termination of processes using waitpid on Linux and cwait on Windows systems.
• Execute processes using the POSIX shell on Linux and MSYS2 systems.
• Distribute the execution of an Octave function to multiple processes.
• Utility functions for generating and merging Adobe PDF files from Octave figures.
• Utility functions to export Octave figures to ASCII CSV files.
• Utility functions for tests and demos.

Copyright^© 2019-2020

Reinhard

Installation

GNU Octave installation

• Follow the instructions on (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) to install GNU Octave.
• Make sure, that mkoctfile is installed.
  mkoctfile --version

GNU Octave package installation:

• Install the following packages from github.
  for pkg in octave; do
git clone https://github.com/octave-user/mboct-${pkg}-pkg.git && make -C mboct-${pkg}-pkg install_local
done

Usage

• Run Octave.
  octave
• At the Octave prompt load the package.
  pkg load mboct-octave-pkg
• At the Octave prompt execute the demos.
  demo run_parallel