rustlab: Interfacing Matlab and Rust

This is a demonstration/experiment in how to use the Rust FFI to create a C library and use that in Matlab through it's support for external C libraries.

So far demonstrations for the following are included:

• pass a c-style string to a rust library from Matlab
• add two doubles (f64s) in rust library
• from Matlab: create a struct in a rust library, hold a pointer to it, and pass the pointer back to free the struct instance in memory
• pass a Matlab matrix to rust library as a flat array, manipulate it, and see the results in Matlab

Rust Language References

• Creating a C API for a Rust library
• Writing Unsafe and Low-Level Code in Rust
• Stack Overflow: Answer to "Understanding Pointer Types in Rust"
• Calling a Rust library from C
• Using Rust objects from other languages
• Creating a Rust Dynamic Library

Matlab – Rust Interfacing References

• Allowing Matlab to Talk to Rust - Elliot Smith

Matlab – C Interface References

• Call C Shared Libraries
• Pass Pointers
• Pass Arrays
• A Few Words About FFIs
• Serializing/deserializing Matlab data