libmatio

Install command: 
brew install libmatio

C library for reading and writing MATLAB MAT files

https://matio.sourceforge.net/

License: BSD-2-Clause

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/libmatio.json

Formula code: libmatio.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon		 golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.6.0

Depends on:

hdf5 2.2.0 File format designed to store large amounts of data

Binaries: matdump

GitHub Packages downloads:

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