harminv: How to use in a Julia environment

[ceysa75]

Dear Steven,

coming from the Fortran/Matlab world I decided to make Julia to my language of choice. Recently, I have discovered harminv which I would really like to use. However, I am clueless about anything related to c (compiling, running etc). Do you have an idea on how to make your library run under Julia ?? I am on windows 7 btw.

Thank you

[stevengj]

In principle, you just need to ccall the harminv library — Julia makes calling C libraries pretty straightforward. But you have to understand C.

You could also call the harminv command-line program through a pipe object in Julia...

Either way you need to compile it for Windows.

[ceysa75]

Thank you for the fast respond,

Ok then, I'll look for someone who is able to compile your code for me. Any future plans to make a julia version of harminv ?

Regards

[stevengj]

No immediate plans. It would be pretty straightforward to go back to Mandelshtam's original papers and implement a pure-Julia version, since Julia has all of the linear-algebra stuff built-in.