Installing pymatbridge on Windows

Question

In version 0.3 of pymatbridge, an additional dependency was added for ZMQ. To install this version, you might therefore need to compile a messenger mex extensio

Answer 1

As I use Visual Studio as my standard IDE I fiddled around and got a working build process. I used:

VS 2013
Matlab 2013b x64
Python 3.3 x64
ZeroMQ 4.0.4.

If you use different Versions please make sure that you adjust the Path where necessary.

Build messenger using Visual Studio (2013)

• First create a new Solution with an empty C++ Project.
• Set up the configuration, e.g. x64 Release
• Open up the Project Properties and set up the following:

Configuartion Properties -> General:

Target Name: messenger

Target Extension: .mexw64

Configuration Type: Dynamic Library (.dll)

Configuartion Properties -> VC++ Directories -> Include Directories:

MATLABPATH \extern\include

ZEROMQ PATH\include

Configuartion Properties -> VC++ Directories -> Library Directories:

MATLABPATH \extern\lib\win64\microsoft

ZEROMQ PATH \lib

Configuartion Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies:

libmx.lib; libmex.lib; libmat.lib; libzmq-v120-mt-4_0_4.dll

Configuartion Properties -> Linker ->Command Line -> Additional Options:

/export:mexFunction

• Add messenger.c as source file
• Build the library
• Copy it to: PYTHONPATH \Lib\site-packages\pymatbridge\matlab\

Please Note:

I got some incompatible error cause by the function names already present in windows.h. The solution was to rename:

• initialize
• listen
• respond
• cleanup

to:

• initializeMat
• listenMat
• respondMat
• cleanupMat