You can call your own C, C++, or Fortran subroutines from the MATLAB® command line as if they were built-in functions. These programs, called binary MEX-files, are dynamically linked subroutines that the MATLAB interpreter loads and executes. The MEX-file contains only one function or subroutine, and its name is the MEX-file name. To call a MEX-file, use the name of the file, without the file extension.
For information about using a MEX-file that someone else created, see Call MEX-File Functions.
mex stands for "MATLAB executable"
and has different meanings, as shown in the following table.
|source MEX-file||C, C++, or Fortran source code file.|
|binary MEX-file||Dynamically linked subroutine executed in the MATLAB environment.|
|MEX function library||MATLAB C/C++ and Fortran API Reference library to perform operations in the MATLAB environment.|
|MATLAB function to create a binary file from a source file.|