name: MATLAB MEX API
description: Build MEX functions that enable calling C, C++, and Fortran code from MATLAB, with support
  for both the C++ MEX API and the C Matrix API.
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humanURL: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/call-mex-files-1.html
baseURL: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/apiref
tags:
- C
- C++
- Extensions
- Fortran
- MEX
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/call-mex-files-1.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/cpp-mex-api.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/c-mex-functions.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/cc-mx-matrix-library.html
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/mex.html