read in Matlab *.mat files on a win32 machine and on Solaris?

[jose flanigan]

Does anybody have any code for python to read in Matlab *.mat version
5 files on a win32 machine and on Solaris?

I found matfile (<ftp://ion.le.ac.uk/matfile/matfile.tar.gz>. ), which
covers Linux, but I can't get it to compile on Solaris on win32.

Thanks in advance.