Re: [Boost-users] load a serialized object into Matlab?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] load a serialized object into Matlab?
From: James C. Sutherland (James.Sutherland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-22 21:41:31

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Robert Valkenburg
<rj.valkenburg_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> We have done quite a bit of this type of thing, serialising data from a 3D
> scanner and then reading back into Matlab for analysis.  We did exactly what
> Diederick suggested, wrote mex files.  We serialise out of the scanner with
> boost serialisation and unserialise in the mex files with boost
> serialiation.  Then the problem is really just one of mapping your C++ data
> structure to an equivalent data structure in Matlab.
>
>  The serialisation part is easy,  the mex interface to matlab however is
> not so nice.
>
>
> Would you be willing to share (on-list or off-list) some of the code that
you wrote to make this happen?  I haven't done much with mex and frankly
dread the thought.  It would be great it I had an example to work from...

Thanks,

James