engOpen

Start Nelson process

📝 Syntax

• #include "engine.h"

• Engine *engOpen(const char *startcmd);

📥 Input argument

• startcmd - Nelson startup command (NULL).

📤 Output argument

• Engine - handle to Nelson engine or NULL.

📄 Description

engOpen starts a Nelson process for using Nelson as a computational engine.

Libraries path need to contain nelson path to find Nelson's libraries at runtime.

Set the value to the path returned by the following Nelson command:

res = modulepath('nelson', 'builtin')

on linux: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:res

export PATH=$PATH:res

on macos: export DYLIB_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLIB_LIBRARY_PATH:res

export PATH=$PATH:res

on windows: set PATH=%PATH%;res

💡 Example

edit([modulepath('mex', 'tests'), '/test_engine.c'])

🔗 See also

mex, engClose.

🕔 History

Version	📄 Description
1.0.0	initial version