st: compiling mata from ado file

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I am not sure why this does not work for me: Shouldn't ado files work
with a structure like this?

program define ...
...
mata: myfunction()
end
mata:
void function myfunction(...) {
...
}
mata mosave myfunction(), replace
end
exit

This way I got the error that the program does not find the Mata
function. (It works if I swap the order of the Stata and the Mata code
though, but that looks silly.)

My code runs fine if I precompile the Mata code and the ado only looks
for the .mo files. But I don't want to do that as I don't want version
control on the Mata code (newer versions will compile faster code,
no?).

Thanks for any thoughts,

Laszlo
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