Writing log statements to standard output with Mat

Question

We're starting Matlab from our Jenkins buildserver. As the build may take some time it would be nice to get some log-outputs while matlab is running. Is there a way to print text to standard output? disp, fprintf and java.lang.System.out.printline only write to the matlab console, not to standard output.

Using a logfile or a pipe won't help, as Jenkins only reads from standard-output during a build step.

How can we write log-statements to the standard output while matlab is running?

EDIT: We're running Matlab 2010b on Windows

Answer 1

I didn't find a real solution. Mathworks created some wrapper tool. But this will only output the results after matlab has exited. You won't get any ouput during execution.

http://www.mathworks.de/support/solutions/en/data/1-ACT3YN/index.html?product=ML&solution=1-ACT3YN

So I'll have live without real live-output...

Answer 2

You can use the diary mode. Not sure if it will fit your specific implementation.

http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/diary.html