## Copyright (C) 2006-2013 David Bateman
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {Command} {} mex [options] file @dots{}
## Compile source code written in C, C++, or Fortran, to a MEX file.
## This is equivalent to @code{mkoctfile --mex [options] file}.
## @seealso{mkoctfile}
## @end deftypefn

function retval = mex (varargin)

  [output, status] = mkoctfile ("--mex", varargin{:});

  if (! isempty (output))
    disp (output);
  endif
  if (nargout > 0)
    retval = status;
  endif

endfunction