How can I run my GPIB-ENET/100 from MATLAB on an Linux machine?

[matthewsmb]

We want to use MATLAB on a Linux laptop to control a host of GPIB instruments using the GPIB-ENET/100 (Have you ever run MATLAB in Windows? Ugh). We have the instrumentation toolbox. How do we do it?

[Ketan Vyas]

You can use Matlab to communicate with GPIB instruments. You will require GPIB ENET/100 driver for Linux and you can get it from www.ni.com/linux
The driver comes with two libraries. The shared library is libgpibenet.and it gets stored by default at /usr/local/lib
You can link the shared library to your application to communicate with gpib instruments and using a shared library will ease the transition between different driver version and it won't increase the file size of executable. But if you don't want to use the shared library then a statically linked cib.o file is also available.