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libmatio

brew install libmatio v1.5.30_1 BSD-2-Clause

C library for reading and writing MATLAB MAT files, with support for HDF5-based formats.

Why you might care

Use libmatio if you need to parse or generate .mat files in C/C++ applications without requiring MATLAB itself. It's the standard open-source solution for MAT file I/O and handles both legacy and HDF5-based MATLAB formats. Primarily useful as a build dependency for scientific computing tools and data pipelines.

Categories

library data-science scientific

Alternatives

scipy.io.matlab h5py MATLAB
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Runtime dependencies

hdf5

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